Diagnosis of Streptococcus canis periprosthetic joint infection: the utility of next-generation sequencing

A 62-year-old man who had undergone a primary knee arthroplasty 3 years earlier, presented to the emergency department with an infected prosthesis. He underwent prosthesis resection. All cultures failed to identify the infecting organism. Analysis of the intraoperative samples by next-generation seq...

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Main Authors: Tarabichi, M, Alvand, A, Shohat, N, Goswami, K, Parvizi, J
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2017