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Mycobacterium marinum infection causing septic arthritis and osteomyelitis
A Barton1, R M Bernstein, J K Struthers
1Department of Rheumatology, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
British Journal of Rheumatology
|December 24, 1997
Abstract:
A 48-yr-old female on immunosuppressive therapy for fibrosing alveolitis and polymyositis developed a septic arthritis of the left middle finger proximal interphalangeal joint, tenosynovitis of the left palm and osteomyelitis of the right hindfoot due to infection with Mycobacterium marinum. Such widespread and severe bone and joint involvement has not been described previously with this organism.