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Bone marrow infection caused by Actinobacillus ureae in a rheumatoid arthritis patient
A Avlami1, C Papalambrou, M Tzivra
1Department of Microbiology, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
The Journal of Infection
|February 12, 1998
Abstract:
A patient with rheumatoid arthritis is described who presented with low-grade fever for 3 months, in whom Actinobacillus ureae was cultured from bone marrow aspirate. Fever responded favourably to penicillin therapy. It is the first reported isolation of A. ureae from bone marrow.