Posttraumatic ankle arthritis due to a novel Nocardia species
Uçkay, I. ; Bouchuiguir-Wafa, K. ; Ninet, B. ; Emonet, S. ; Assal, M. ; Harbarth, S. ; Schrenzel, J.
In: Infection, 2010, vol. 38, no. 5, p. 407-412
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- Introduction: Nocardial arthritis in immunocompetent patients is rare, and the optimum duration of antimicrobial therapy is unknown, although several months of antibiotic treatment is often recommended. Case report: We here report the first case of human infection with a novel Nocardia sp., summarise the epidemiology of nocardial arthritis and outline the feasibility of relatively short antibiotic treatments after careful surgical drainage