Journal article
Mycobacterial and fungal infections of bone and joints
Current opinion in rheumatology, Vol.6(4), pp.408-414
07/1994
DOI: 10.1097/00002281-199407000-00010
PMID: 8068512
Abstract
The incidence of tuberculosis of the bone or joint is increasing. The number of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates that are resistant to multiple antibiotics is also on the rise. In response to the changing epidemiology, the approach to treatment of tuberculosis has been considerably modified. Laboratory methodology is improving to facilitate diagnosis and management of this disease. A variety of nontuberculous mycobacteria may also cause disease of skeletal structures. Mycobacterium haemophilum is an emerging pathogen in immunosuppressed patients with a proclivity for infecting bones and joints. The availability of the triazoles has substantially altered the therapeutic approach to fungal infections of bone or joint. Itraconazole can now be considered as therapy of blastomycosis, coccidioidosis, histoplasmosis, or sporotrichosis. Fluconazole is useful in cryptococcal infection, but its role in Candida osteoarticular infection remains to be defined.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mycobacterial and fungal infections of bone and joints
- Creators
- Jeffery Meier - University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current opinion in rheumatology, Vol.6(4), pp.408-414
- Publisher
- Lippincott-Raven Publishers
- DOI
- 10.1097/00002281-199407000-00010
- PMID
- 8068512
- ISSN
- 1040-8711
- eISSN
- 1531-6963
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/1994
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094763202771
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