Clinical comparison between exogenous and haematogenous periprosthetic joint infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1098-1100

  Sendi, P ^a,b,c   Banderet, F ^a   Graber, P ^a   Zimmerli, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b University Clinic of Infectious Diseases   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Prosthetic joint infections; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE AND JOINT INFECTIONS; CHILL; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIPROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79960010869     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03510.x     Document Type: Article

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