Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup C Causing Primary Arthritis in a Child: Case Report: Erratum

In the article, “Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup C Causing Primary Arthritis in a Child: Case Report”,^[1] which appeared in Volume 95, Issue 5 of Medicine, the first four lines of Table 1 are being removed as they were found to not be serogroup C and one study was added. The publication year, age of patients and joints involved were also corrected.

Table 1.

Reported cases of primary arthritis with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C.

The following references were removed from the article.

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• 14. Christiansen JC. Primary meningococcal arthritis caused by Neisseria meningitidis. One of the many manifestations of meningococcal disease. Ugeskr Laeger 1995; 157:3909–3910.

• 15. Cartolano GL, Le Lostec Z, Chéron M, et al Primary meningococcal arthritis of the knee: contribution of synovial liquid culture in blood-culture vial. Rev Méd Interne 2001; 22:75–78.

• 16. Giamarellos-Bourboulis EJ, Grecka P, Petrikkos G, et al Primary meningococcal arthritis: a case report and review. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2002; 20:553–554.