1. Prosthetic Joint Infection: The Challenges of Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment and Opportunities for Future Research.
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Benito, Natividad, Benito, Natividad, Lora-Tamayo, Jaime, and Murillo, Óscar
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Epidemiology & medical statistics ,Medicine ,Candida albicans ,Candida spp ,Cutibacterium acnes ,Staphylococcus aureus ,anidulafungin ,antibiotic levels ,antibiotic prophylaxis ,antifungal-loaded cement spacer ,arthroplasty infection ,biofilm ,compliance ,dalbavancin ,daptomycin ,decolonization ,diabetic foot infections ,drug-drug interaction ,eosinophilic pneumonia ,epidemiology ,extensively drug-resistant ,fungus ,gram-positive ,hematoma ,hip arthroplasty ,hip hemiarthroplasty ,implant removal ,infection ,intra-articular injection ,intraoperative cultures ,knee ,knee arthroplasty ,multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria ,osteoarticular infections ,outcome ,oxazolidinones ,periprosthetic joint infection ,prolonged antibiotic ,prolonged oral treatment ,prosthetic joint infection ,prosthetic joint infection ambulatory outcome ,prosthetic joint infection functional outcome ,prosthetic joint infection prevention ,prosthetic joint infections ,proximal femur fracture ,rifampin ,risk factors ,serum bactericidal titer ,sol-gel ,suppressive antibiotic treatment ,surgical and medical treatment ,surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis ,surgical site infection ,surgical site infection prevention ,tedizolid ,tolerance ,total knee arthroplasty ,two-stage exchange surgery - Abstract
Summary: This reprint brings together a group of articles that were published as a Special Issue on prosthetic joint infection in the journal Antibiotics. They cover various aspects of risk factors and prevention, medical and surgical treatment, and outcomes of prosthetic joint infections.