A case of Mycoplasma hominis

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• 作者：Chia-Ling Phuah ; Babak Javid ; Sani H. Aliyu ; Andrew M.L. Lever
• 关键词：Pregnancy ; Septic arthritis ; Mycoplasma hominis
• 刊名：Journal of Infection
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：November 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：55
• 期：5
• 页码：e135-e137
• 全文大小：235 K

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<h3 class=""h3"">Summaryh3>A 17-year-old woman presented 1-week post caesarean section with septic arthritis which was unresponsive to first-line empirical antimicrobial therapy. Cultures of the hip aspirate revealed Mycoplasma hominis as the causative organism. M. hominis-associated septic arthritis is extremely rare in the absence of underlying joint abnormalities or immunosuppression. Strikingly four of the 26 cases reported have been pregnancy-associated.