Prosthetic joints: shining lights on challenging blind spots

Kordo Saeed; Matthew Dryden; Matteo Bassetti; Eric Bonnet; Emilio Bouza; Monica Chan; Nick Cortes; Joshua S Davis; Silvano Esposito; Gérard Giordano; Ian Gould; David Hartwright; David Lye; Mercedes Marin; Rhidian Morgan-Jones; Francisco Lajara-Marco; Elda Righi; Carlo Luca Romano; John Segreti; Serhat Unal; Rhodri Llywelyn Williams; Ata Nevzat Yalcin; International Society of Chemotherapy

doi:10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.10.015

Prosthetic joints: shining lights on challenging blind spots

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2017 Feb;49(2):153-161. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.10.015. Epub 2016 Nov 28.

Authors

Kordo Saeed¹, Matthew Dryden², Matteo Bassetti³, Eric Bonnet⁴, Emilio Bouza⁵, Monica Chan⁶, Nick Cortes⁷, Joshua S Davis⁸, Silvano Esposito⁹, Gérard Giordano¹⁰, Ian Gould¹¹, David Hartwright¹², David Lye¹³, Mercedes Marin⁵, Rhidian Morgan-Jones¹⁴, Francisco Lajara-Marco¹⁵, Elda Righi³, Carlo Luca Romano¹⁶, John Segreti¹⁷, Serhat Unal¹⁸, Rhodri Llywelyn Williams¹⁹, Ata Nevzat Yalcin²⁰; International Society of Chemotherapy

Affiliations

¹ Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke & Winchester, UK; University of Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK. Electronic address: kordosaeed@nhs.net.
² Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke & Winchester, UK; University of Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK; Rare and Imported Pathogens Department, Public Health England, UK.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Santa Maria Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Joseph Ducuing, Toulouse, France.
⁵ Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore; Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁷ Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke & Winchester, UK; University of Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK; Gibraltar Health Authority, St Bernard's Hospital, Gibraltar.
⁸ Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, NT, Department of Infectious Diseases, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
¹⁰ Orthopaedic-Traumatology Department, Joseph Ducuing Hospital, Toulouse, France.
¹¹ Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK.
¹² Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winchester, UK.
¹³ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
¹⁴ Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics, University Hospital Llandough, Cardiff, UK.
¹⁵ Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics, Hospital 'Vega Baja' Orihuela, Alicante, Spain.
¹⁶ Centro di Chirurgia Ricostruttiva e delle Infezioni Osteo-articolari, Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
¹⁷ Department of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
¹⁹ Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hywel Dda University Health Board, Wales, UK.
²⁰ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.

PMID: 27939092
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.10.015

No abstract available

Keywords: Arthroplasty; Implant; Loosening; Prosthetic joint infection; Total hip arthroplasty; Total knee arthroplasty.

Publication types

Editorial
Review

MeSH terms

Antibiotic Prophylaxis / methods*
Arthroplasty / adverse effects*
Diagnostic Tests, Routine / methods*
Humans
Microbiological Techniques / methods*
Prosthesis-Related Infections / diagnosis
Prosthesis-Related Infections / epidemiology*
Prosthesis-Related Infections / prevention & control*