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Infection of a Hip Prosthesis by Actinomyces naeslundii

We present the case of a 77-year-old woman who developed an Actinomyces naeslundii infection of a hip prosthesis. The isolate grew well aerobically with 5% CO(2). Possible diagnostic problems may arise in the microbiological laboratory because aerobic growth is not sufficiently accounted for in some...

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Main Authors: Wüst, Jürg, Steiger, Ulrich, Vuong, Hanh, Zbinden, Reinhard
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2000
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC86252/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10655420
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