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Case Reports
. 2009 Oct;85(6):441-2.
doi: 10.1136/sti.2008.035444.

A case of duplicitous diplococci

M Raychaudhuri  1 , A Peall, C Page, M Browning
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Case Reports

A case of duplicitous diplococci

M Raychaudhuri et al. Sex Transm Infect. 2009 Oct.

Abstract

Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) is an uncommon complication of acute gonorrhoea that occurs more frequently in women than in men. Inherited complement deficiency or episodic complement deficiency in association with flare up of other diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may predispose individuals to gonococcal bacteraemia. We report a case of DGI in a patient with pre-existing SLE that was initially masked by a lupus flare.

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