Arthritis verursacht durch Listeria monocytogenes

Handrïck, W; Schwede, I.; Tomalik, T.; Berthold, Fritz

doi:10.1007/s00393-007-0237-6

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“…Listeria joint infections are very rare events; a Medline search revealed only 35 reported cases, with about twothirds of them occurring in prosthetic joints (Marculescu et al, 2006;Schett et al, 2005;Gó mez-Rodríguez et al, 2006;Kesteman et al, 2007;Cone et al, 2008;Tien et al, 2008;Handrick et al, 2008). In a recently published series of 525 samples from patients with suspected bone and/or joint infection, no L. monocytogenes was detected by either standard or molecular methods (Fenollar et al, 2006).…”

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Genotypic versus phenotypic methods in the detection of Listeria monocytogenes prosthetic joint infection

Žaloudíková

Kelbl

Paša

et al. 2009

Journal of Medical Microbiology

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A rare case of a severe prosthetic joint infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent woman is presented. Listeria monocytogenes was identified in two consecutive samples using broad-range PCR and sequencing, whereas cultivation remained negative for the first sample and streptococci of a non-group A streptococci, non-group B streptococci type were detected for the second one. This report demonstrates that the phenotypic approach may lead to misidentification of L. monocytogenes in a routine clinical setting. Molecular methods of pathogen detection might be useful when a rare and/or unexpected micro-organism is present or the sample is collected during antibiotic treatment.

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