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Periprosthetic hip joint infection with Aspergillus terreus: A clinical case and a review of the literature

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2017
Fungal periprosthetic joint infections due to Aspergillus species are rare but are associated with significant cost and morbidity. We present a case of Asperigillus terreus prosthetic joint infection of the hip.
Rachel Bartash, Yi Guo, John B. Pope, Michael H. Levi, Wendy Szymczak, Nidhi Saraiya, Priya Nori   +6 more
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Mycobacterium mageritense Prosthetic Joint Infection

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2020
Prosthetic joint infections (PJI) complicate up to 2% of arthroplasties and are usually caused by typical bacterial agents (e.g., staphylococci and streptococci).
Maria A. Caravedo Martinez, Lucas S. Blanton   +1 more
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Surgeons are deeply affected when patients are diagnosed with prosthetic joint infection.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Knee replacement is a common preference sensitive quality-of-life procedure that can reduce pain and improve function for people with advanced knee arthritis.
Charlotte Mallon, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Ashley Blom, Michael Whitehouse, Andrew Moore   +4 more
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Prosthetic knee joint infection caused by α-hemolytic Streptococcus species: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023
Background Knee arthroplasty is an orthopedic surgical procedure in which a damaged joint is replaced with an artificial one. It is estimated that 1–2% of knee arthroplasties will encounter infection over their lifetime.
Masoud Mardani, Jafar Mohammadshahi, Roghayeh Teimourpour   +2 more
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Prosthetic Knee Septic Arthritis due to Pseudomonas stutzeri

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2000
Prosthetic joint infection is usually caused by Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase-negative staphylococci and, less commonly, by Gram-negative bacilli and anaerobes.
Jihad Bishara, Eyal Robenshtok, Zmira Samra, Silvio Pitlik   +3 more
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An unexpected pathogen causing prosthetic joint infection following screening colonoscopy

Arthroplasty Today, 2019
A 61-year-old woman with a right total knee arthroplasty presented with 1 week of atraumatic right knee swelling, pain, and fevers 2 weeks following a routine screening colonoscopy.
Caleb M. Yeung, MD, Paul M. Lichstein, MD, James H. Maguire, MD, Jeffrey K. Lange, MD, Daniel M. Estok, II, MD   +4 more
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Prosthetic Joint Infections Due to Histoplasma capsulatum: A Report of 3 Cases

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2021
Histoplasma capsulatum causes pneumonia and multisystemic disease in humans. Musculoskeletal involvement in histoplasmosis is most often tenosynovitis and rarely septic arthritis. Even more uncommon is the involvement of prosthetic joints.
Hadi E. Berbari, MS, Pooja Gurram, MBBS, Maryam Mahmood, MBChB, Paul J. Deziel, PAC, Randall C. Walker, MD, Raymund R. Razonable, MD   +5 more
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Periprosthetic Joint Infections: Clinical and Bench Research

The Scientific World Journal, 2013
Prosthetic joint infection is a devastating complication with high morbidity and substantial cost. The incidence is low but probably underestimated. Despite a significant basic and clinical research in this field, many questions concerning the definition
Laurence Legout, Eric Senneville
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Small-colony variant of Staphylococcus lugdunensis in prosthetic joint infection

Arthroplasty Today, 2018
Prosthetic joint infection is usually caused by staphylococci. Among the coagulase-negative staphylococci, Staphylococcus lugdunensis is important because it behaves as a pathogen similar to S aureus.
Mohamed Askar, PhD, MRCS, Benjamin Bloch, PhD, FRCS Orth, Roger Bayston, PhD, FRCPath   +2 more
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Performance and potential utility of the BioFire Joint Infection Panel with synovial fluid and joint tissue specimens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology
The BioFire Joint Infection Panel (BJIP) (bioMérieux) is a rapid sample-to-answer multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) platform for the diagnosis of joint infections.
Shivani Fox-Lewis, Marc Douglass, Sally Roberts   +2 more
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