Rates of, and risk factors for, septic arthritis in patients with invasive pneumococcal disease: prospective cohort study

Rates of, and risk factors for, septic arthritis in patients with invasive pneumococcal disease: prospective cohort study

Abstract Background There are many case reports of septic arthritis complicating invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD); however, no study has compared patients with IPD with septic arthritis to those who didn’t develop septic arthritis Thus, we aimed to determine the rates of, and risk factors for, se...

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Main Authors: Thomas J. Marrie, Gregory J. Tyrrell, Sumit R. Majumdar, Dean T. Eurich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Septic arthritis
Streptococcus Pneumoniae
Risk factors
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-017-2797-7

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