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Candida arthritis in an immunocompetent patient without predisposing factors
J M Calvo Romero1, J L Alvarez Vega, J M Salazar Vallinas
1Rheumatology Section, Hospital Regional Universitario Infanta Cristina, Badajoz, Spain.
Clinical Rheumatology
|November 7, 1998
Abstract:
Candida arthritis is infrequent in patients who are not intravenous drug users. We describe a patient who was not an intravenous drug user and without other predisposing factors who developed knee arthritis caused by Candida albicans. We believe that this is the first report of such a case.