| Literature DB >> 28379472 |
Matthew Thoendel1, Patricio Jeraldo2, Kerryl E Greenwood-Quaintance3, Nicholas Chia2, Matthew P Abdel4, James M Steckelberg1, Douglas R Osmon1, Robin Patel1,3.
Abstract
Defining the microbial etiology of culture-negative prosthetic joint infection (PJI) can be challenging. Metagenomic shotgun sequencing is a new tool to identify organisms undetected by conventional methods. We present a case where metagenomics was used to identify Mycoplasma salivarium as a novel PJI pathogen in a patient with hypogammaglobulinemia.Entities:
Keywords: Mycoplasma; metagenomics; prosthetic joint infection
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28379472 PMCID: PMC5848249 DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix296
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079