A 7-year retrospective review from 2005 to 2011 of Propionibacterium acnes shoulder infections in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-199

  Wang, Bing ^a   Toye, Baldwin ^a   Desjardins, Marc ^a   Lapner, Peter ^a   Lee, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial culture; Propionibacterium acnes; Shoulder infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANADA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 84872496050     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.10.018     Document Type: Article

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