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Cutibacterium acnes is Isolated from Air Swabs: Time to Doubt the Value of Traditional Cultures in Shoulder Surgery?
1 Jul 2020
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BACKGROUND: cultures remain uncertain. Next generation sequencing (NGS) is a molecular tool that sequences the whole bacterial genome and is capable of identifying pathogens and the relative percent abundance in which they appear within a sample. The purpose of this study was to report the false positive culture rate in negative control specimens and to determine whether NGS has potential value in reducing the...
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