Infectious arthritis
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Broader Terms
arthritis, communicable disease
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Related Terms
Lyme disease, medical complication
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Scope Note
arthritis caused by bacteria, rickettsiae, mycoplasmas, viruses, fungi, or parasites; bacterial arthritis is frequently caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Borrelia, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae; viral arthritis is less common than bacterial arthritis and may be a manifestation of such viral diseases as mumps, rubella, hepatitis, etc.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- Infectious arthritis is a form of joint inflammation caused by a germ.
- Symptoms and Treatment Infectious arthritis is usually quite painful.
- A slowly developing chronic infectious arthritis is most often caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (one of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis) or fungi.
- Prompt diagnosis of infectious arthritis is necessary to prevent permanent damage to the joint.
- In general, infectious arthritis is caused by the spread of a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection through the bloodstream to the joint.
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