Culturing periprosthetic tissue in BacT/Alert® Virtuo blood culture system leads to improved and faster detection of prosthetic joint infections.

Adriana M SanabriaMerethe E O RøkebergMona JohannessenJohanna Ericson SollidGunnar Skov SimonsenAnne-Merethe Hanssen

Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2019)

We recommend using the BacT/Alert® Virtuo blood culture system for analyzing prosthetic joint tissue, since this detect efficiently and more rapidly a wider range of bacteria than the conventional microbiological method.

Keyphrases

clinical decision support
total hip
total hip arthroplasty
real time pcr