Article
Heterogeneity of Staphylococcus epidermidis in prosthetic joint infections: time to reevaluate microbiological criteria?
2 Oct 2021
Abstract excerpt
Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a feared and challenging to diagnose complication after arthroplasty, with Staphylococcus epidermidis as the major pathogen. One important criteria to define PJI is the detection of phenotypically indistinguishable microorganisms with identical antibiotic susceptibility pattern in at least two different samples. However, owing to phenotypical variation within genetic clones and...
