Finegoldia magna: a forgotten pathogen in prosthetic joint infection rediscovered by molecular biology.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America ·Vol. 49 ·No. 8 ·2009-10-15 ·Pages 1244-7

Levy PY, Fenollar F, Stein A, Borrione F, Raoult D

Abstract

In this study, we describe 13 patients with prosthetic infections due to Finegoldia magna (2% of our tested series). Patients presented with either polymicrobial infection after an open fracture or nosocomial infection after recent prosthesis implantation. Molecular techniques are critical for diagnosis, and recommended antibiotic prophylaxis has poor activity against F. magna.

MeSH Terms

Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over DNA, Bacterial/chemistry,genetics DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry,genetics Female Gram-Positive Bacteria/classification,genetics,isolation & purification Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections/diagnosis,microbiology Humans Joint Prosthesis/microbiology Male Middle Aged Prosthesis-Related Infections/microbiology RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics Sequence Analysis, DNA Young Adult

Chemicals

DNA, Bacterial DNA, Ribosomal RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Authors & Affiliations

5 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Levy Pierre-Yves

Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes-Unité Mixte de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 6236-Institut de Recherche et Developpement 198, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.

Fenollar Florence

Stein Andreas

Borrione Frédéric

Raoult Didier

Article Info

Journal

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Abbr.

Clin Infect Dis

ISSN

1537-6591

DOI

10.1086/605672

Published

2009-10-15

Pages

1244-7

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

9203213

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1086/605672 View journal details

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