Arthrographis kalrae arthritis: a new case report

Pier Paolo Sainaghi; Antonella Rossati; Camillo Buccheri; Olivia Bargiacchi; Pietro Luigi Garavelli; Stefano Andreoni

Arthrographis kalrae arthritis: a new case report

Infez Med. 2015 Jun;23(2):192-4.

Authors

Pier Paolo Sainaghi¹, Antonella Rossati¹, Camillo Buccheri¹, Olivia Bargiacchi¹, Pietro Luigi Garavelli¹, Stefano Andreoni¹

Affiliation

¹ Departments of 1st Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Orthopaedics and Traumatology and Microbiology and Virology, Maggiore della Caritá University Hospital, Novara, Italy.

PMID: 26110303

Abstract

To date, only 11 cases of infection by Arthrographis kalrae have been described. According to the literature, we report a second case of arthritis caused by this mycete after a penetrating wound successfully treated with voriconazole before arthroscopic knee washout for six weeks.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

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Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use*
Arthritis / microbiology*
Arthritis / pathology
Arthroscopy
Ascomycota / isolation & purification*
Humans
Knee / pathology
Male
Mycoses / microbiology*
Treatment Outcome
Voriconazole / therapeutic use*

Substances

Antifungal Agents
Voriconazole