A case of Candida orthopsilosis associated septic arthritis in a patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Orville D Heslop; Karel De Ceulaer; Lois Rainford; Alison M Nicholson

doi:10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.11.001

A case of Candida orthopsilosis associated septic arthritis in a patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Med Mycol Case Rep. 2014 Nov 12:7:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.11.001. eCollection 2015 Mar.

Authors

Orville D Heslop¹, Karel De Ceulaer², Lois Rainford¹, Alison M Nicholson¹

Affiliations

¹ Depatrtment of Microbiology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston7, Jamaica.
² University Hospital of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica.

Abstract

We report a case of persistent Candida orthopsilosis associated septic arthritis. Repeated isolation of C. orthopsilosis from tissue and joint fluid was confirmed by identification of the ITS region of the rRNA gene using a Candida-Specific Luminex based assay and gene sequencing of the D1/D2 regions. This was the first case of C. orthopsilosis associated septic arthritis reported in Jamaica and in the literature.

Keywords: Biofilm formation; Candida orthopsilosis; Fluconazole; Persistent infection; Septic arthritis.