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Streptococcus Dysgalactiae Subspecies Dysgalactiae Infection after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Case Report
- Source :
- Knee Surgery & Related Research
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012.
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Abstract
- Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies dysgalactiae (SDSD), Lancefield group C streptococcus, is an animal pathogen which often causes pyogenic infection in domestic animals. Human infection by SDSD has been reported as a cellulitis on the upper arm, but a prosthetic joint infection caused by SDSD after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has not yet been reported in the literature demonstrating that its clinical manifestation and management have not been well established. In this case report, we aimed to present a case of SDSD prosthetic joint infection after TKA, which was successfully treated by two-stage re-implantation with an application of antibiotic-impregnated cement spacer.
- Subjects :
- musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
biology
business.industry
Cement spacer
Group C streptococcus
Total knee arthroplasty
Case Report
Clinical manifestation
Subspecies
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Surgery
Cellulitis
Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp
Pyogenic infection
medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Dysgalactiae
Infection
Streptococcus dysgalactiae
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22342451 and 22340726
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Knee Surgery & Related Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1a6a94e2deefe4c54171accbf120d3c6