GMS Hygiene and Infection Control (Sep 2016)

Malassezia species infection of the synovium after total knee arthroplasty surgery

  • Leylabadlo, Hamed Ebrahimzadeh,
  • Zeinalzadeh, Elham,
  • Akbari, Najibeh Asl Rahnemaii,
  • Kafil, Hossein Samadi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3205/dgkh000279
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11
p. Doc19

Abstract

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Infection is a serious complication after implantation of total knee-prostheses. However, fungal infection is rarely found in periprosthetic joints, and in most reports, the infecting organism is a species. This is a case report of infection after left knee total arthroplasty caused by species. The patient is still undergoing antifungal therapy with voriconazole and is still being followed-up. To the authors’ knowledge, the present case is the first report of species in a patient after total knee arthroplasty.

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