title: Reactivated Moraxella osteitis presenting as granulomatous disease.
abstract: Granulomatous infections are commonly associated with mycobacteria, brucellosis, actinomycosis, nocardiosis, spirochetes, and fungi. Rarely, granuloma formation is a host response to other bacterial infection. Osteomyelitis and osteitis that reactivate many years after the primary episode is a known phenomenon. A reactivation that presents as a granulomatous disease is rare. We present a case of reactivated osteitis due to Moraxella osloensis with consecutive granuloma formation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sendi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sonderegger
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Bonel
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Schäfer
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vögelin
mesh_terms: D001850:Bone Diseases, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D045828:Moraxellaceae Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010000:Osteitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D012008:Recurrence