This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Charles P. Davis, MD, PhD; Sarah Cochran, MD; Jeffrey Lisse, MD; George Buck, PhD; Anthony R. DiNuzzo, MS; Thomas Weber, MD; James A. Reinarz, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1988;148(4):969-970.

Abstract
• A patient with a long history of arthritis developed pneumonia. Two weeks into her hospital course, the patient developed effusions in her knee and wrist that yielded cultures positive for Mycoplasma pneumoniae. To our knowledge, this is the third reported case of M pneumoniae isolation from a joint and the first report of isolation of M pneumoniae from two joints in a patient without hypogammaglobulinemia. The evidence suggests that in individuals with atypical pneumonia and joint effusions, M pneumoniae should be considered as a source of infection.

(Arch Intern Med 1988;148:969-970)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Microbiology (Dr Davis), Internal Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology) (Drs Davis, Cochran, Lisse, Weber, and Reinarz), and Pathology (Drs Buck and DiNuzzo), University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 13, 1988.

Reprint requests to Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550 (Dr Davis).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Distribution of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Mycoplasma salivarium in the Synovial Fluid of Arthritis Patients
Johnson et al.
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2007;45:953-957.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Variability of Arthritis Associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection in Children
Schwartz and Garty
CLIN PEDIATR 2005;44:633-636.
 

Relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and Mycoplasma pneumoniae: a case control study
Ramirez et al.
Rheumatology (Oxford) 2005;44:912-914.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Its Role as a Human Pathogen
Waites and Talkington
Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 2004;17:697-728.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection in Autopsy and Open-Lung Biopsy Tissues by Nested PCR
Talkington et al.
J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998;36:1151-1153.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Case 23-1993- A 30-Year-Old Man with a Dry Cough, Dyspnea, and Nodular Pulmonary Lesions
Karlinsky and Mark
NEJM 1993;328:1696-1703.
FULL TEXT