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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 647-649Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/318704
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-01647] Funding Source: Medline
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We prospectively evaluated 53 patients with prosthetic joints and 27 patients with other orthopedic prosthetic devices who developed Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). After exclusion of patients with primary postoperative infections, the risk of a prosthesis becoming infected by means of hematogenous seeding after SAB was 34% (15 of 44 patients) for prosthetic joints and 7% (1 of 15 patients) for other orthopedic prostheses.
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