-transparent.png){kind=logo}
Previous studies of gram negative bacillary septic arthritis conclude it is an uncommon disease of older patients with poor outcome, or of younger patients with good outcome. We reviewed 22 cases of gram negative bacillary septic arthritis in a rural population. The mean age was 61 years, symptoms were of short duration (6.5 days mean), and a chronic illness was frequently present (77%). The knee was involved in 73% and E. coli was the usual causative organism (32%). Antibiotics plus aspiration was a successful initial therapy. Overall survival was 95% and a good outcome was achieved in 68%. Gram negative bacillary septic arthritis affects older patients, and the outcome appears good.
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
March 1962,
Lancet (London, England),
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
June 1960,
Rhode Island medical journal,
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
December 1966,
Virginia medical monthly,
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
April 1955,
Canadian Medical Association journal,
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
February 1965,
Lancet (London, England),
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
April 1965,
Lancet (London, England),
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
April 1973,
The American journal of medicine,
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
November 1983,
Archives of internal medicine,
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
July 1950,
Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion,
E D Newman, and
D E Davis, and
T M Harrington
February 1981,
Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires,
