Abstract

Sphingomonas paucimobilis is an opportunistic infectious agent that generally shows its pathogenicity by accompanying an underlying comorbid disease. It is recognized that Sphingomonas paucimobilisis associated with many infections, including: bacteremia, ventilator related pneumonia, intravascular related catheter infections, meningitis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, postoperative endophthalmitis, pleural empyema, splenic abscess, urinary tract infections and biliary tract infections. The present report described a prosthetic joint infection, caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis, in a patient who had endoprosthetic tumor reconstruction due to osteosarcoma. It chronicles the prosthetic joint infection with endoprosthetic tumor reconstruction in the literature caused by S. paucimobilis.