TY  - JOUR
T1  - Demonstration of Bacillus cereus in Orthopaedic-Implant-Related Infection with Use of a Multi-Primer Polymerase Chain Reaction-Mass Spectrometric AssayReport of Two Cases
AU  - Gallo, Phillip H.
AU  - Melton-Kreft, Rachael
AU  - Nistico, Laura
AU  - Sotereanos, Nicholas G.
AU  - Sewecke, Jeffrey J.
AU  - Stoodley, Paul
AU  - Ehrlich, Garth D.
AU  - Costerton, J. William
AU  - Kathju, Sandeep
Y1  - 2011/08/03
N1  - 10.2106/JBJS.J.01181
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - e85 1
EP  - 6
VL  - 93
IS  - 15
N2  - 
Infection following primary total joint replacement occurs with a prevalence of approximately 1% to 2%, but it can be a devastating complication1. Rates of infection following revision arthroplasty are higher, approaching 10%2,3. The medical and economic costs of periprosthetic joint infection are expected to become greater in the future, with the number of primary total hip arthroplasties expected to grow by 174%, to 572,000 annually in two decades4.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.J.01181
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.J.01181
ER  -