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Increased rate of enteric bacteria as cause of periprosthetic joint infections in patients with liver cirrhosis

INTRODUCTION: Periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) are a major complication in joint-arthroplasty. Rifampicin is often used as an additional agent to treat PJI, because it penetrates bacterial biofilms. However, rifaximin, belonging to the same antibiotic class as rifampicin, is frequently used to...

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Autores principales: Koepf, Uta S., Scheidt, Sebastian, Hischebeth, Gunnar T. R., Strassburg, Christian P., Wirtz, Dieter C., Randau, Thomas M., Lutz, Philipp
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9019970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35439971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07379-2