[Acute arthritis of knee with intra-articular presence of D.medinensis. Comparative clinical and immunologic evolution. 1 case].
The authors report a case of knee acute arthritis with intra-articular presence of microfilariae D. medinensis observed in a black African worker immigrated in France. It is a classical manifestion of dracunculosis articular complications which are however less frequent than intra-articular reaction arthritis without microfilariae, or than pyogenes arthritis due to neibourhood superinfections. The authors emphasize the significance of a double clinical and immunological supervision in the course of a convenient treatment including antibiotics, anti-inflammatory agents, local treatment, and rehabilitation.
D000328:Adult; D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology*; D004320:Dracunculiasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004321:Dracunculus Nematode; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007717:Knee / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D008302:Mali / Q000208:ethnology; D012698:Serologic Tests; D014171:Transients and Migrants
Arthrite aiguë du genou avec présence intra-articulaire de microfilaires de D. medinensis. Evolutions clinique et immunologique compararées. A propos d'um cas.