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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on July 27, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(9):1197-1198; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei035
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus septic arthritis: an emerging clinical syndrome

J. J. Ross and L. Davidson1

Division of Infectious Diseases, Caritas Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center and 1 Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Correspondence to: J. J. Ross, Division of Infectious Diseases, Caritas Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center, 736 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02135, USA. E-mail: jrossmd@cchcs.org

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SIR, Despite the increasing importance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a nosocomial and community pathogen, little is known about the clinical characteristics of MRSA septic arthritis. Prior descriptions of native joint MRSA septic arthritis in adults are confined to case reports [1–4]. In recent European studies, 6–8% cases of septic arthritis were due to MRSA [5, 6], although these patients were not described in detail. We reviewed cases of native joint septic arthritis from . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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