Reactivated Moraxella osteitis presenting as granulomatous disease

Neth J Med. 2014 Nov;72(9):491-3.

Abstract

Granulomatous infections are commonly associated with mycobacteria, brucellosis, actinomycosis, nocardiosis, spirochetes, and fungi. Rarely, granuloma formation is a host response to other bacterial infection. Osteomyelitis and osteitis that reactivate many years after the primary episode is a known phenomenon. A reactivation that presents as a granulomatous disease is rare. We present a case of reactivated osteitis due to Moraxella osloensis with consecutive granuloma formation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bone Diseases, Infectious / diagnosis*
  • Bone Diseases, Infectious / microbiology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Granuloma / diagnosis*
  • Granuloma / microbiology
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Moraxellaceae Infections / complications
  • Moraxellaceae Infections / diagnosis*
  • Osteitis / diagnosis*
  • Osteitis / microbiology
  • Recurrence