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Irritable hip and campylobacter infection
Morrison Hospital, Swansea, Wales.
Three cases are reported which presented as "irritable" or "observation" hips and failed to respond to rest at home and in hospital. In each case a campylobacter organism was grown from the faeces; none were found in a group of 20 patients in the paediatric ward for other reasons. The patients responded to a course of erythromycin. It is postulated that they may have had a reactive arthropathy of the hip and suggested that cultures for Campylobacter be made as part of the investigation of irritable hip. |
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