Corynebacterium bovis shoulder prosthetic joint infection: the first reported case

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-215

  Achermann, Yvonne ^a   Trampuz, Andrej ^b   Moro, Fabricio ^c   Wüst, Jürg ^d   Vogt, Markus ^a  

^a Department of Urology Hospital of the Canton of Zug   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c Upper Extremity Department   (Switzerland)

^d Unilabs   (France)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium bovis; Prosthetic joint infection; Shoulder prosthesis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM BOVIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; JOINT EFFUSION; JOINT STIFFNESS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REIMPLANTATION; SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY; SHOULDER PAIN; SYNOVECTOMY;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 67349160478     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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