Arthritis verursacht durch Listeria monocytogenes

Abstract

A 69-year-old man with liver cirrhosis presented to a surgeon, complaining of pain and swelling involving the right knee joint. A cloudy yellow synovial fluid was aspirated. The examination revealed polymorphonuclear leukocytes and Listeria monocytogenes was grown in the culture. The patient was treated with oral cotrimoxazole. Further follow-up was uneventful. The literature on listerial joint infections is briefly reviewed.

Genotypic versus phenotypic methods in the detection of Listeria monocytogenes prosthetic joint infection

“…Listeria joint infections are very rare events; a Medline search revealed only 35 reported cases, with about twothirds of them occurring in prosthetic joints (Marculescu et al, 2006;Schett et al, 2005;Gó mez-Rodríguez et al, 2006;Kesteman et al, 2007;Cone et al, 2008;Tien et al, 2008;Handrick et al, 2008). In a recently published series of 525 samples from patients with suspected bone and/or joint infection, no L. monocytogenes was detected by either standard or molecular methods (Fenollar et al, 2006).…”