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Diagnosis and treatment of mycoplasmal septic arthritis: a systematic review.
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- ExtragenitalIDCases · 2026Article
- Disseminated Culture-Negative Periprosthetic Knee Infection With Multifocal Septic Arthritis Associated WithCase reports in orthopedics · 2026Article
- Early and Accurate Pathogen Identification Based on mNGS: Key to Timely Therapy for Mycoplasma Prosthetic Joint Infection.Orthopaedic surgery · 2025Article
- Mycoplasma arginini Cellulitis, Tenosynovitis, and Arthritis in Kidney Transplant Recipient, Slovenia, 2024.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing Improves the Diagnosis Efficiency of Mixed Periprosthetic Joint Infections.Infection and drug resistance · 2025Article
- Microbial culture vs. mNGS: diagnostic variations in periprosthetic joint infection.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
- Periprosthetic joint infections: state-of-the-art.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2024Review
- A case report of fracture-related infection withJournal of bone and joint infection · 2024Article
- An Unusual and Difficult to Detect Cause of Infection in Two Trauma Patients.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- Diagnostic Role of mNGS in Polymicrobial Periprosthetic Joint Infection.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Optimization and standardization of mNGS-based procedures for the diagnosis ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- Identification of sacrococcygeal and pelvic abscesses infected with invasive Mycoplasma hominis by MALDI-TOF MS.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2022Article
- Septic arthritis caused byBMJ case reports · 2022Article
- An enemy in shadows-Mycoplasma hominis septic arthritis and iliopsoas abscess: Case report and review of the literature.IDCases · 2021Article
- Septic polyarthritis withAccess microbiology · 2021Article
- Cervical Arthroplasty in the Treatment of Cervical Angina: Case Report and Review of the Literature.Neurospine · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeSeptic arthritis caused by Mycoplasma is rare. The diagnosis and effective treatment of mycoplasmal septic arthritis remains a serious problem for clinicians. The aim of this systematic review was to document the available evidence on the diagnosis and treatment methods for mycoplasmal septic arthritis and to provide guidance for clinicians.
methodsThe PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases were searched in December 2018.The searches were limited to the English language. Article screening and data extraction and compilation were conducted by two independent reviewers. All the included studies were assessed using the Methodological Index for Non-randomized Studies (MINORS) tool.
resultsThere was a total of 33 articles including 34 cases of mycoplasmal septic arthritis and eight of them were periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Twenty-four patients (70.6%) were immunocompromised, and the synovial fluid white blood cell (WBC) count was significantly lower in the immunocompromised group than in the immunocompetent group (48,527 × 10
conclusionThe possibility of mycoplasmal septic arthritis should be considered if patients with joint infections have a history of immunocompromised, repeated negative cultures, and poor empiric antibiotic treatment results. The rational use of nucleic acid testing technologies can help in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of mycoplasmal septic arthritis.
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