Extraintestinal Clostridioides difficile infection: Septic arthritis 12 months after colitis.

Extraintestinal Clostridioides difficile infection: Septic arthritis 12 months after colitis. Anaerobe. 2021 Jan 08;:102318 Authors: Amaya SL, Rosa ES, Sergio GF, Noelia A, Lourdes RR, Eduardo G, Patricia RG, Javier C Abstract A 79-year-old male was diagnosed with a total knee prosthetic infection. He had a history of an episode of Clostridioides difficile-associated diarrhoea a year ago. Clostridioides difficile was isolated from the joint fluid and intraoperative tissue samples, and ribotyping demonstrated that the strain was the same that had caused the diarrheic episode, an infrequent ribotype (RT534). The genetic relatedness suggests that the initial infection occurred during that hospitalization, resulting in a chronic prosthetic infection. We have carried out an extensive literature review of all the cases reported in scientific databases of Clostridioides difficile infections with extraintestinal presentation and their relationship with previous colitis. PMID: 33429018 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Anaerobe - Category: Microbiology Authors: Tags: Anaerobe Source Type: research