Diagnosing periprosthetic infection: False-positive intraoperative gram stains

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 954-960

  Oethinger, Margret ^a,b   Warner, Debra K ^a   Schindler, Susan A ^a   Kobayashi, Hideo ^a   Bauer, Thomas W ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CRYSTAL VIOLET; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GRAM'S STAIN; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTHROPLASTY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; INFECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAINING; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENTIAN VIOLET; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; OHIO; PHENAZINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 79955792050     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1589-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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