Oral cavity staphylococci are a potential source of prosthetic joint infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1682-1683

  Friedlander, Arthur H ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LETTER; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOOTH INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 77953013930     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653003     Document Type: Letter

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