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Sheldon T. Warman, MD; Elizabeth Reinitz, MD; Robert S. Klein, MD

JAMA. 1981;246(8):868-869.

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ALTHOUGH serious disease in adults caused by Haemophilus sp is being seen with apparently increasing frequency, septic arthritis from these organisms is rare. The majority of these cases of septic arthritis are due to H influenzae type b. We report here a case of H parainfluenzae, septic arthritis in an adult documented by positive culture of joint fluid.

Report of a Case

A 95-year-old female nursing home resident was admitted to North Central Bronx Hospital because of deterioration of mental status. She was noted to have a temperature of 38.3 °C four days before admission, then became incontinent of urine and disoriented. One day before admission, she fell on her left side and complained of pain in her left hip and ankle.

Medical history included hypertension, an organic brain syndrome, and atherosclerotic heart disease. Her medications were 50 mg of chlorthalidone daily and 250 mg of methyldopa daily. There was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, Divisions of Infectious Diseases (Drs Warman and Klein) and Rheumatology (Dr Reinitz), Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, North Building, Room 305, 111 E 210th St, Bronx, NY 10467 (Dr Warman).

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