Mycobacterium marinum infection causing septic arthritis and osteomyelitis

Br J Rheumatol. 1997 Nov;36(11):1207-9. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/36.11.1207.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Arthritis, Infectious / diagnostic imaging
  • Arthritis, Infectious / drug therapy
  • Arthritis, Infectious / microbiology*
  • Doxycycline / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Finger Joint / diagnostic imaging
  • Finger Joint / drug effects
  • Finger Joint / microbiology*
  • Foot Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Foot Diseases / drug therapy
  • Foot Diseases / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppressive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / diagnostic imaging
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / drug therapy
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / etiology*
  • Mycobacterium marinum / isolation & purification*
  • Osteomyelitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Osteomyelitis / drug therapy
  • Osteomyelitis / microbiology*
  • Polymyositis / drug therapy
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis / drug therapy
  • Tenosynovitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Tenosynovitis / microbiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Immunosuppressive Agents
  • Doxycycline