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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

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01-10-2006 | Knee

Pasteurella multocida infection of a total knee arthroplasty after a “dog lick”

Authors: B. Heym, F. Jouve, M. Lemoal, A. Veil-Picard, A. Lortat-Jacob, M.H. Nicolas-Chanoine

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 10/2006

Abstract

The patient we report here underwent a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) which got infected with P. multocida after her dog had licked a small wound at the third toe of the same foot. Despite a correct treatment comprising synovectomy and cleansing, and an active antibiotic treatment for 3 months, the patient was readmitted for persistent infection of the same knee 2 weeks after the end of the antibiotic treatment. Sampling during surgery allowed for the growth of a P. multocida isolate proven by a molecular method to be identical to the previously isolated strain. This recurrent P. multocida infection was treated by a two-step change of the TKA comprising a 2-month period of antibiotic treatment between the two surgical interventions.

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Title: Pasteurella multocida infection of a total knee arthroplasty after a “dog lick”
Authors: B. Heym
F. Jouve
M. Lemoal
A. Veil-Picard
A. Lortat-Jacob
M.H. Nicolas-Chanoine
Publication date: 01-10-2006
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 10/2006
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-005-0022-5

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