title: Comparison of infection control rates and clinical outcomes in culture-positive and culture-negative infected total-knee arthroplasty.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To compare the outcomes of the culture positive and the culture negative infected TKA.
  
  
  METHODS
  We determined the infection control rate in the 242 patients (140 patients with culture-positive and 102 patients with culture-negative diagnoses) with infected TKAs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall infection control rate was 90% in the culture positive group and 95% in the culture negative group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The infection control rates and clinical outcomes of infected TKAs was not different between culture-positive and culture-negative groups.
authors.affiliation: The Joint Replacement Center, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 158-710, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Young-Hoo
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: The Joint Replacement Center, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 158-710, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sourabh S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
authors.affiliation: The Joint Replacement Center, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 158-710, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jang-Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: The Joint Replacement Center, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 158-710, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jun-Shik
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: The Joint Replacement Center, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 158-710, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hyun-Keun
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.affiliation: The Joint Replacement Center, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 158-710, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Devarshi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rastogi
keywords: Culture-positive; Culutre-negative; Infection control rate; TKA