Sensitivities, Specificities, and Predictive Values of Microbiological Culture Techniques for the Diagnosis of Prosthetic Joint Infection

Background. Identifying the microorganism in a prosthetic joint infection is the key to appropriately targeting antimicrobial treatment. Despite the availability of various techniques, no single test is considered the definitive gold standard. Aim. Our aim was to determine the sensitivity, specifici...

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Autores principales: Jordan, Robert W., Smith, Nicholas A., Saithna, Adnan, Sprowson, Andrew P., Foguet, Pedro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/180416

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/180416

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