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© 1982 British Society for Rheumatology

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GROUP G STREPTOCOCCAL ARTHRITIS

A. BRADLOW1,, R. G. MITCHELL2 and A. G. MOWAT1

1Department of Rheumatology, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Headington, Oxfor Ox3 7LD
2Department of Bacteriology, John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford

Correspondence to: Requests for reprints to Dr. A. Bradlow

Six cases of Lancefield Group G streptccocal arthritis are described. Two cases had pre-existing chronic arthritis (one rheumatoid).with infection of a joint prosthesis. Three cases had neoplastic disease before or at the same time as septic arthritis. Skin reactions, including cellulitis and sacrlatiniform rash, were prominent in five cases. ONe patient may have acquired a Group G streptococcus from her dog. Five cases reponded well to penicillin and the sixth who was allergic to that drug was cured by erythromycin. This unusual cause of septic arthritis is being recognized more frequently in the United Kingdom.


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