Is "aseptic" loosening of the prosthetic cup after total hip replacement due to nonculturable bacterial pathogens in patients with low-grade infection?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1599-1603

  Ince, A ^a   Rupp, J ^b   Frommelt, L ^a   Katzer, A ^a   Gille, J ^a   Lohr J F ^a  

^a ENDO Klinik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASOCEF; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 9644254364     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425303     Document Type: Article

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