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An extremely uncommon infection: Candida glabrata arthritis after total knee arthroplasty
Z Cibali Açikgöz1, Uğur Sayli, Sinan Avci
1School of Medicine, Fatih University, Ankara, Turkey. zcacikgoz@yahoo.com
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|June 19, 2002
Abstract:
Prosthetic arthritis caused by Candida species is extremely rare. Of 30 such cases reported in the English literature, only 3 were due to Candida glabrata. We present herein a fourth case; to the best of our knowledge this is the first example of knee arthroplasty infection caused by C. glabrata.