Yuanqing Cai1, Xinyu Fang1, Lvheng Zhang1, Xurong Yang1, Lixiong Nie1, Zida Huang1, Wenbo Li1, Chaofan Zhang1, Bin Yang2, Zhenpeng Guan3, Wenming Zhang4. 1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China. 2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China. 3. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China. guanzhenpeng@qq.com. 4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China. zhangwm0591@fjmu.edu.cn.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different pretreatment methods on the microbial yield from infectious tissues. METHODS: Strains of Staphylococcus aureus (SA), Escherichia coli (EC) and Candida albicans (CA) were used to construct single-surface, full-surface, and internal infection models in sterile pork tissue. Manual milling (MM), mechanical homogenization (MH), sonificated (SF), dithiothreitol (DTT), and direct culture (DC) were used to pretreat these tissues, the microbial yield from different pretreatment methods were recorded and compared. Moreover, periprosthetic tissues collected intraoperatively from periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) patients were used as a verification. RESULTS: The study showed that the microbial yield from MH pretreatment was significantly higher than that of MM (P < 0.01) and SF pretreatment method (P < 0.01). Furthermore, in the internal infection model, the microbial yield from MH group was also significantly higher than that of SF (P < 0.01), DTT (P < 0.01), and DC group (P < 0.01). Moreover, the number of bacterial colonies obtained from periprosthetic tissues pretreated by MH was significantly higher than pretreated by other pretreatment methods (P = 0.004). CONCLUSIONS: The effects of MH and DTT in microbial yield were significantly higher than that of DC, SF and MM, and these methods can be used to process multiple tissue samples at the same time, which might further improve the diagnostic sensitivity of infectious disease.
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different pretreatment methods on the microbial yield from infectious tissues. METHODS: Strains of Staphylococcus aureus (SA), Escherichia coli (EC) and Candida albicans (CA) were used to construct single-surface, full-surface, and internal infection models in sterile pork tissue. Manual milling (MM), mechanical homogenization (MH), sonificated (SF), dithiothreitol (DTT), and direct culture (DC) were used to pretreat these tissues, the microbial yield from different pretreatment methods were recorded and compared. Moreover, periprosthetic tissues collected intraoperatively from periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) patients were used as a verification. RESULTS: The study showed that the microbial yield from MH pretreatment was significantly higher than that of MM (P < 0.01) and SF pretreatment method (P < 0.01). Furthermore, in the internal infection model, the microbial yield from MH group was also significantly higher than that of SF (P < 0.01), DTT (P < 0.01), and DC group (P < 0.01). Moreover, the number of bacterial colonies obtained from periprosthetic tissues pretreated by MH was significantly higher than pretreated by other pretreatment methods (P = 0.004). CONCLUSIONS: The effects of MH and DTT in microbial yield were significantly higher than that of DC, SF and MM, and these methods can be used to process multiple tissue samples at the same time, which might further improve the diagnostic sensitivity of infectious disease.
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