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Arthritis due to mycobacterium fortuitum
1Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, USA.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|March 5, 1999
Abstract:
Mycobacterium fortuitum is classified as a rapidly growing mycobacterium (RGM) according to the Runyon classification. RGM are increasingly being recognized as human pathogens. Joint infection due to M. fortuitum is a rare, but serious disease. This report describes a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and septic arthritis of the knee due to M. fortuitum in a previously normal joint with no history of surgery or intra-articular injections.