| Literature DB >> 31527029 |
Tamta Tkhilaishvili1,2, Tobias Winkler3,2, Michael Müller3,2, Carsten Perka3,2, Andrej Trampuz3,2.
Abstract
We documented the adjunctive bacteriophage therapy to treat a chronic relapsing periprosthetic joint infection of the knee and chronic osteomyelitis of the femur caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa The combined antibiotic-phage treatment eradicated the infection, and no side effects to phages were observed.Entities:
Keywords: MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa; bacteriophage therapy; biofilm infections; periprosthetic joint infection
Year: 2019 PMID: 31527029 PMCID: PMC7187616 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00924-19
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191