Typical chicken pox presented with arthritis in the left knee in a 5-year-old girl. Attempts to isolate bacteria, Mycoplasma, and viruses were unsuccessful. The arthritis subsided promptly and long term follow-up has failed to yield evidence of other disease. Varicella virus infection may be the cause of the arthritis.
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J. R. Ward (1970) studied this question.