How are clinical symptoms and dx of non-gonococcal arthritis?

Acute swollen joints often large joints like ankle/knee, fever, sweats, rigors, joint swollen, warm, red and tender. Clinical presentation vary according to virulence of causative organism, low for mycobacterial/fungal joints. If other joint issue exists, one joint stand out of the others, polyarthritis occurs for 20% of pt mostly with chronic disease/immunosuppression. In pt with RA, use of anti-inflammatory drugs mask the joint pain and swelling leads to dx delay