Unnecessary Routine Use of Mycobacterial Cultures in Patients With Periprosthetic Joint Infections

Accurate diagnosis ensures appropriate therapy of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Since mycobacterial PJI is rare, routine testing is inappropriate. We reviewed hip and knee PJI at our institution over 28 months. Mycobacterial cultures were routinely sent with rare positivity. Mycobacterial cu...

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Autores principales: Golden, Marjorie, Moffarah, Anne Spichler, Kerantzas, Christopher, Rubin, Lee, O’Bryan, Jane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8982768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35392456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac132
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author Golden, Marjorie
Moffarah, Anne Spichler
Kerantzas, Christopher
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O’Bryan, Jane
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description Accurate diagnosis ensures appropriate therapy of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Since mycobacterial PJI is rare, routine testing is inappropriate. We reviewed hip and knee PJI at our institution over 28 months. Mycobacterial cultures were routinely sent with rare positivity. Mycobacterial cultures should be sent only when there is clinical suspicion.
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spelling pubmed-89827682022-04-06 Unnecessary Routine Use of Mycobacterial Cultures in Patients With Periprosthetic Joint Infections Golden, Marjorie Moffarah, Anne Spichler Kerantzas, Christopher Rubin, Lee O’Bryan, Jane Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Accurate diagnosis ensures appropriate therapy of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Since mycobacterial PJI is rare, routine testing is inappropriate. We reviewed hip and knee PJI at our institution over 28 months. Mycobacterial cultures were routinely sent with rare positivity. Mycobacterial cultures should be sent only when there is clinical suspicion. Oxford University Press 2022-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8982768/ /pubmed/35392456 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac132 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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