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Symptoms of infectious arthritis include:

- pain and stiffness in the joint, typically in the knee, shoulder, ankle, finger, wrist or hip.
- heat and redness around the joint
- fever and shaking chills
- skin rash

Other symptoms vary depending on the cause of infectious arthritis. Some common symptoms of infectious arthritis include:

Lyme disease: is caused by bacteria that live in deer ticks (deer) and enter the person’s blood when the tick bites a person.

Since the tick bite often goes unnoticed and the rash that causes could be ignored, Lyme disease is not always diagnosed immediately. When the infection is left untreated, may develop other symptoms, including joint inflammation (most commonly in the knee). Arthritis typically develops in late stages of Lyme disease.

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that can cause pain in one or more joints or tendons and sometimes cause a rash or fever. About a third of people with gonorrhea report having pain in the joints.

Staph infection: staph are common bacteria that can cause infections through cuts or other skin lesions or through contaminated food. The bacteria are released into the bloodstream and spread to the knee or other joints, causing sudden severe pain, swelling and immobility of the joint. This is a serious condition because joint damage can develop in days if the infection is not detected and treated quickly.
Tuberculosis is an infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It usually affects the lungs but can affect other parts of the body including the gastrointestinal tract, lymphatic system and skin and bones and joints. Arthritis caused by tuberculosis usually affects the spinal cord or large joints such as hips or knees. The joint inflammation caused by tuberculosis tends to be less drastic than the inflammation caused by infectious and some other bacteria develops slowly.

Virus: Arthritis can be caused by infection with many viruses, including those that cause colds, infections of the upper respiratory tract, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis, rubella and mumps. Many joints may be affected at the same time and symptoms of viral infectious arthritis can be similar to the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. However, viral arthritis symptoms usually disappear within days or weeks if the disease causing the problem disappears. HIV and some forms of viral hepatitis may cause chronic (long) and joint symptoms that last longer.

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