Phage Therapy as Adjuvant to Conservative Surgery and Antibiotics to Salvage Patients With Relapsing S. aureus Prosthetic Knee Infection

Phage Therapy as Adjuvant to Conservative Surgery and Antibiotics to Salvage Patients With Relapsing S. aureus Prosthetic Knee Infection

Objectives: To report the management of three consecutive patients with relapsing Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic knee infection (PKI) for whom explantation was not feasible who received a phage therapy during a “Debridement Antibiotics and Implant Retention” (DAIR) procedure followed by suppressiv...

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Main Authors: Tristan Ferry, Camille Kolenda, Cécile Batailler, Claude-Alexandre Gustave, Sébastien Lustig, Matthieu Malatray, Cindy Fevre, Jérôme Josse, Charlotte Petitjean, Christian Chidiac, Gilles Leboucher, Frédéric Laurent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
bacteriophages
phage therapy
prosthetic-joint infection
S. aureus
phagotherapy
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.570572/full

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