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Infectious Arthritis

Most kinds of arthritis cause pain and swelling in your joints. Joints are places where two bones meet, such as your elbow or knee. Infectious arthritis is an infection in the joint. The infection comes from a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection that spreads from another part of the body. Symptoms of infectious arthritis include:

  • Intense pain in the joint
  • Joint redness and swelling
  • Chills and fever
  • Inability to move the area with the infected joint

One type of infectious arthritis is reactive arthritis. The reaction is to an infection somewhere else in your body. The joint is usually the knee, ankle, or toe. Sometimes, reactive arthritis is set off by an infection in the bladder, or in the urethra, which carries urine out of the body. In women, an infection in the vagina can cause the reaction. For both men and women, it can start with bacteria passed on during sex. Another form of reactive arthritis starts with eating food or handling something that has bacteria on it.

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  1. Infectious Arthritis (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... bones meet, such as your elbow or knee. Infectious arthritis is an infection in the joint. The infection ... from another part of the body. Symptoms of infectious arthritis include: Intense pain in the joint Joint redness ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/infectiousarthritis.html - Health Topics
  2. Fungal arthritis 
    Ohl CA. Infectious arthritis of native joints. In: Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ, eds. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000444.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Viral arthritis 
    ... Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2021:chap 121. Ohl CA. Infectious arthritis of native joints. In: Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ, eds. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases . 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2020:chap ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000416.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Reactive arthritis 
    ... Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases . 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2020:chap 107. Carter JD, Hudson AP. Reactive arthritis. In: Firestein GS, Budd RC, Gabriel SE, Koretzky ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000440.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  5. Easy-to-Read Health Information 
    ... National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF I Infectious Arthritis What Is Reactive Arthritis? (National Institute of Arthritis ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/all_easytoread.html -
  6. ClinicalTrials.gov: Arthritis, Infectious From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
    Infectious Arthritis/Clinical Trials
    https://clinicaltrials.gov/...+Infectious"&aggFilters=status:not rec - External Health Links
  7. Wrist pain 
    ... affects both wrists. Psoriatic arthritis usually accompanies psoriasis. Infectious arthritis is a medical emergency. Signs of an infection ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003175.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  8. Types of Haemophilus influenzae Infections (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)  
    ... influenzae can cause, hib, hib infection, Epiglotittis, cellulitis, infectious arthritis, Haemophilus influenzae Infection(HIB), Haemophilus influenzae Serotype b ( ...
    https://www.cdc.gov/hi-disease/about/types-infection.html - External Health Links
  9. Synovial Fluid Analysis: MedlinePlus Medical Test 
    ... healthwise/article/hw231503 Related Health Topics Arthritis Gout Infectious Arthritis Joint Disorders Osteoarthritis Rheumatoid Arthritis Related Medical Tests ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/lab-tests/synovial-fluid-analysis - Medical Tests
  10. Arthritis (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... a type of arthritis that happens in children. Infectious arthritis is an infection that has spread from another ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/arthritis.html - Health Topics
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