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Infection around hip and knee arthroplasties is a very important problem in orthopaedic surgery for a number of reasons: (1) almost always, hospital infection is due to Staphylococcus aureus, which is a very resistant species; (2) there is reduced blood support in the bone around the prostheses; and (3) the prostheses are metallic devices, making it difficult to use surgery in this type of infective disease.
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Massari, L., Prandini, N. (2003). Orthopaedic Infections: The Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Update on Prosthesis Infection. In: Signore, A., Liberatore, M., Scopinaro, F. (eds) Nuclear Medicine in the Management of Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05289-1_7
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