title: Listeria monocytogenes septic arthritis. A case report and review of the literature.
abstract: Septic arthritis is a relatively uncommon manifestation of listeriosis. Only four documented cases of Listeria arthritis have been reported in the medical literature. We now present a fifth case associated with Listeria peritonitis and briefly review the clinical spectrum of articular listeriosis. These cases suggest that (1) the early diagnoses of Listeria peritonitis and arthritis require a high degree of clinical suspicion, and (2) a cephalosporin should not be used as the sole antibiotic in cases of septic arthritis and peritonitis in which the causative organism has not been identified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Curosh
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Perednia
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008088:Listeriosis / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000209:etiology