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Antibiotic therapy alone does not have a high success rate in cases of unexpected positive cultures in intraoperative samples from hip and knee prosthesis revision

BACKGROUND: Unexpectedly positive bacterial cultures during prosthesis revision surgery still occur on occasion despite good preoperative diagnostics. In such cases a six-week antibiotic therapy without further surgical intervention is recommended. The aim of this study was to find out how successfu...

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Autores principales: Fink, Bernd, Schlumberger, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7700714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33248455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03799-w

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