title: Total knee arthroplasty complicated by Corynebacterium jeikeium infection.
abstract: Corynebacterium jeikeium is a slow-growing multiresistant micro-organism. It causes serious opportunistic infections in patients with long hospital stays who receive broad-spectrum antibiotics. It can be isolated from blood and other sites in neutropenic, immunosuppressed bone marrow recipients and in patients with indwelling catheters. Cases of infection related to bone and joint replacements are rare. This case is the first where Corynebacterium jeikeium has been isolated from an infected knee following total knee arthroplasty.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: H Y
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cetin
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Ucar
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003352:Corynebacterium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003354:Corynebacterium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007720:Knee Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010149:Postoperative Pain; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D012086:Reoperation; D014945:Wound Healing