Salmonella typhi osteitis can mimic tuberculosis. A report of three cases.
We report three cases of Salmonella typhi osteitis. One patient was an immunocompetent woman with a single focus of osteitis, another had heterozygous sickle cell disease with multifocal osteitis, and the remaining patient had acute discitis. Tuberculosis was considered in all three patients, based on origin from an endemic area (sub-Saharan Africa), a chronic course in the first two patients, and granulomas in a biopsy specimen from one patient.
Laloum
Etty
E
Internal Medicine and Rheumatology Department, Diaconesses-Croix Saint-Simon Hospital, 125 rue d'Avron, 75020 Paris, France.
Zeller
Valérie
V
Graff
Wilfried
W
Aerts
Jean
J
Chazerain
Pascal
P
Mamoudy
Patrick
P
Ziza
Jean Marc
JM
Desplaces
Nicole
N
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005542:Forearm; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009192:Myelography; D010000:Osteitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology*; D012485:Salmonella typhi; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000175:diagnosis; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000175:diagnosis*