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Remote transient Lactobacillus animalis bacteremia causing prosthetic hip joint infection: a case report
R Somayaji1, T Lynch2, J N Powell3
1Departments of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Background:
Lactobacillus spp. are uncommon pathogens in immunocompetent hosts, and even rarer causes of prosthetic device infections.
Case Presentation:
A case of chronic hip prosthetic joint infection (PJI) caused by L. animalis is described. This occurred 5 years after a transient bacteremia with the same organism. Whole genome sequencing of both isolates proved this PJI infection resulted from this remote bacteremia.
Conclusions:
We document that prosthetic joint infections may be a consequence of bacteremia as much as 3 years before the onset of symptoms.
