Nongonococcal bacterial arthritis.
The most salient features of nongonococcal bacterial arthritis are reviewed. Factors such as life expectancy, prosthetic joints, arthroscopies, the spread of the AIDS epidemic, and of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as modifiers of the course of these arthritides are discussed.
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatolog, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
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Mikhail
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Alarcón
D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003663:Decision Trees; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors