Diagnostic criteria for generalized osteoarthritis: a preliminary study in a population with knee osteoarthritis.
nd major role for S. aureus, which was involved in 60% to 100% f cases in earlier studies [1–10]). Atypical organisms may be ound [1,4]. In our study, blood cultures assisted in the diagnois in only one-third of the patients with septic bursitis, whereas ulturing fluid aspirated from the bursa provided the diagnosis n 87% of cases. The similarities in the bacteriological and other esults of studies done over 30 years suggests stability of the feaures and risk factors of prepatellar and olecranon bursitis over ime.