383. Rheumatic Disease Patients Have More Culture Negative Prosthetic Joint Infections: Are There Clinical Differences?

BACKGROUND: Rheumatic disease (RD) patients are at increased risk for prosthetic joint infections (PJI), however, diagnosis is challenging because active RD may mimic joint infection. We aimed to assess the incidence of culture-negative (CN) PJI in a population of RD and osteoarthritic (OA) PJI usin...

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Autores principales: Kapadia, Milan, Miller, Andy O, Nocon, Allina, Sculco, Peter, Goodman, Susan M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810095/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.456

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