Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection (Feb 2019)

Early prosthetic joint infection due to Ureaplasma urealyticum: Benefit of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis for diagnosis

  • Caroline Rouard,
  • Sabine Pereyre,
  • Sophie Abgrall,
  • Christelle Guillet-Caruba,
  • Pierre Diviné,
  • Nadège Bourgeois-Nicolaos,
  • Sandrine Roy,
  • Véronique Mangin d’Ouince,
  • Cécile Bébéar,
  • Thierry Bégué,
  • Florence Doucet-Populaire

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 52, no. 1
pp. 167 – 169

Abstract

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Detection of the most frequently bacteria involved in prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is usually performed by conventional cultures. We report a case of early PJI due to Ureaplasma urealyticum, diagnosed by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, which highlights the interest of molecular methods if fastidious bacteria are involved in PJI. Keywords: Prosthetic joint infection, Ureaplasma urealyticum, 16S rRNA gene, Molecular diagnosis