Polymerase chain reaction detection of bacterial infection in total knee arthroplasty

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 331, Issue , 1996, Pages 11-22

  Mariani, Brian D ^a   Martin, Daniel S ^a   Levine, Marc J ^a,b   Booth Jr , Robert E ^a   Tuan, Rocky S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; GENETICS; INFECTION; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOPEDICS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; UNITED STATES;

AWARDS AND PRIZES; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; ORTHOPEDICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030267694     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199610000-00003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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