Bone and joint infections (BJIs) are serious infections requiring early optimized antimicrobial therapy. BJIs can be polymicrobial or caused by fastidious bacteria, and the patient may have received antibiotics prior to sampling, which may decrease the sensitivity of culture-based diagnosis. Furthermore, culture-based diagnosis can take up to 14 days. Molecular approaches can be useful to overcome these concerns. The BioFire® system performs syndromic multiplex PCR in 1 hour, with only a few minutes of sample preparation. The BioFire® Joint Infection (JI) panel (BF-JI), recently FDA-cleared, detects both Gram-positive (n=15) and Gram-negative bacteria (n=14), Candida, and eight antibiotic resistance genes directly from synovial fluids. The aim of this study was to evaluate its performance in acute JIs in real-life conditions. BF-JI was performed on synovial fluid from patients with clinical suspicion of acute JI, either septic arthritis or periprosthetic JI, in 6 French centers. The results of BF-JI were compared with the results of culture of synovial fluid and other concomitantly collected osteoarticular samples obtained in routine testing in the clinical microbiology laboratory.Aim
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The treatment of a chronic prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a combination of the bacteria's identification, a «carcinological» surgery and an appropriate antibiotherapy. In case of gram positive cocci infection, rifampicin is often used. The aim of this study is to determine which factors are responsible for the development of resistance to rifampicine. All patients had a total hip (THA) or knee (TKA) arthroplasty with a chronic infection. They were treated with a two-time surgery. All of them received a bi-antibiotic treatment. In case of gram positive cocci infection, and according to the susceptibility test, they received rifampicin. The 221 patients were operated from July 1997 to November 2013 in 3 university centers (one Belgian and two French) and were retrospectively analysed. The demographical, clinical and bacterial data as well as the antibiotic treatment were collected. The healing was defined as the absence of recurrence during the 2 years following surgery.Aim
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A multicentric retrospective study was performed, on consecutive patients with PA – related SPJIs diagnosed on the basis of at least 2 or more positive cultures of either per-operative or joint aspiration and clinical history compatible with a PJI according to the current guidelines. All patients had surgical management, followed by systemic antibiotic therapy. Remission was defined as an asymptomatic patient with functioning prosthesis at the last contact.Aim
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One of the most common pathogen causing musculoskeletal infections is Summary
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