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Study of the Bacterial Etiology of Cryptic Arthritis | ||
| Medical Journal of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-35 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Qasim N. Thewaini; Afraa H. Omran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Thirty patients showing clinical symptoms of arthritis with negative culture results were negative as done by the clinical laboratories. With cooperation of senior rheumatologist synovial fluid samples were collected . The routine culture were repeated, serial, dilution, leucocyte lysate and biphasic cultures were done for them , in addition to direct exam .Cell-Wall Defective (CWD ) colonies were found as tiny, pouched egg appearance in 13 instances: Staphylococcus aureus CWD, Escherichia coli CWD, Streptococcus pyogenes CWD and Klebsiella pneumoniae CWD. In 13 serial , dilution , lysate and biphasic culture and 2 routine culture as well as the remaining were culture-negative. Thus CWD S. aureus and CWD E . coli were the dominant arthropathic organisms. | ||
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