Molecular Typing of Multiple Isolates Is Essential to Diagnose Cutibacterium acnes Orthopedic Device-related Infection.

El Sayed, Faten; Roux, Anne-Laure; Sapriel, Guillaume; Salomon, Elsa; Bauer, Thomas; Gaillard, Jean-Louis; Rottman, Martin · Clin Infect Dis · 2019

case_series · Level IV

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Abstract

Cutibacterium acnes orthopedic device-related infections (ODRIs) range from obvious infections to solely culture-based diagnoses. Multilocus sequence typing of multiple isolates from the same procedure revealed that most cases with normal C-reactive protein levels that were classified as C. acnes ODRI would be considered contaminations when accounting for genotypic data.

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