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Group C streptococcal infection in a prosthetic joint
J Kleshinski1, G M Georgiadis, J M Duggan
1Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo 43699-0008, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|January 6, 2001
Abstract:
We present possibly the first reported case of prosthetic joint infection due to group C Streptococcus in a 53-year-old man. The patient was treated with surgical debridement along with extended intravenous antibiotics and long-term oral penicillin therapy. He was able to retain the prosthesis and at 4-year follow-up had no symptoms or evidence of recurrent clinical infection.