Currently, the gold standard for the microbiological diagnosis remains the culturing of preoperative aspirated joint fluid and intraoperative periprosthetic tissue samples, which give false negative results in about 7 % of cases. Lytic bacteriophages are viruses that specifically infect and lyse bacteria within their replication cycle. The aim of our study was to explore possibilities for the use of bacteriophage K for the detection of live Background
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