Disseminated gonococcal infection: the importance of testing all mucosal sites
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Wayne L. Gold; Keith Gunaratne; Peter E. Wu
- Source
- CMAJ
- Subject
- musculoskeletal diseases
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Unprotected sex
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
HIV Infections
medicine.disease_cause
Gonococcal infection
03 medical and health sciences
Gonorrhea
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
0303 health sciences
Practice
Tenosynovitis
Mucous Membrane
030306 microbiology
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Dermatology
Rash
Left wrist
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
body regions
medicine.anatomical_structure
Abdomen
medicine.symptom
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1488-2329
A 27-year-old man with a history of HIV infection presented to hospital after 3 days of fever, night sweats and rash over his chest, abdomen and extremities ([Figure 1][1]). The patient had tenosynovitis in his left wrist but no swollen or tender joints. He reported that he had unprotected sex with