A Novel Prosthetic Joint Infection Pathogen, Mycoplasma salivarium, Identified by Metagenomic Shotgun Sequencing.
case_report · Level V
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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.
Medical subject headings
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- Joint Prosthesis
- Mycoplasma Infections
- Mycoplasma salivarium
- Prosthesis-Related Infections