[Acute arthritis of knee with intra-articular presence of D.medinensis. Comparative clinical and immunologic evolution. 1 case].

The authors report a case of knee acute arthritis with intra-articular presence of microfilariae D. medinensis observed in a black African worker immigrated in France. It is a classical manifestion of dracunculosis articular complications which are however less frequent than intra-articular reaction arthritis without microfilariae, or than pyogenes arthritis due to neibourhood superinfections. The authors emphasize the significance of a double clinical and immunological supervision in the course of a convenient treatment including antibiotics, anti-inflammatory agents, local treatment, and rehabilitation.