| Literature DB >> 11181131 |
D R Murdoch1, S A Roberts, V G Fowler, M A Shah, S L Taylor, A J Morris, G R Corey.
Abstract
We prospectively evaluated 53 patients with prosthetic joints and 27 patients with other orthopedic prosthetic devices who developed Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). After exclusion of patients with primary postoperative infections, the risk of a prosthesis becoming infected by means of hematogenous seeding after SAB was 34% (15 of 44 patients) for prosthetic joints and 7% (1 of 15 patients) for other orthopedic prostheses.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID： 11181131 DOI： 10.1086/318704
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN： 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079