Prospective comparative study of patients with culture proven and high suspicion of adult onset septic arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-331

  Gupta, M N ^a   Sturrock, R D ^a   Field, M ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEROLOGY; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037378716     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.4.327     Document Type: Article

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