Listeria monocytogenes is increasingly recognised as a cause of prosthetic joint infection. These infections tend to be more insidious and indolent in contrast to similar infections with Staphylococcus aureus. They can occur in patients who are immunocompromised due to malignancy or other illness or
Pasteurella multocida prosthetic joint infection
β Scribed by John W Mellors; Robert T Schoen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6760
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