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Case Reports
. 2015 Dec 11:22:357.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2015.22.357.7680. eCollection 2015.

Nontyphoidal Salmonella septic arthritis of the elbow in a healthy infant

Abdullah Saleh Al Nafeesah  1
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Nontyphoidal Salmonella septic arthritis of the elbow in a healthy infant

Abdullah Saleh Al Nafeesah. Pan Afr Med J. .

Abstract

A case of rarely encountered nontyphoidal Salmonella septic arthritis of the elbow in an infant with no preexisting disease is reported. Salmonella etiology was not suspected in this case, and the diagnosis was made only after bacterial isolation. Aspiration of the infected joint with radiological guidance initially failed to give a good clinical response. Arthrotomy was done with intravenous cefotaxime for 4 weeks followed by 2 weeks oral ciprofloxacin therapy to which the child responded favorably. Up to our knowledge this is the first case of nontyphoidal salmonella elbow septic arthritis in an infant in Saudi Arabia to be reported in the English literature.

Keywords: Nontyphoidal salmonella; healthy; infant; septic arthritis.

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