TABLE 1.
Infection | % of patients with prosthetic joint infection |
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Hip and knee |
Hipc | Kneec | Shoulderd | Elbowe | ||
All time periodsa | Early infectionb | |||||
Staphylococcus aureus | 27 | 38 | 13 | 23 | 18 | 42 |
Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus | 27 | 22 | 30 | 23 | 41 | 41 |
Streptococcus species | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
Enterococcus species | 3 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Aerobic Gram-negative bacilli | 9 | 24 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 7 |
Anaerobic bacteria | 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 | ||
Propionibacterium acnes | 24 | 1 | ||||
Other anaerobes | 3 | 0 | ||||
Culture negative | 14 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 5 |
Polymicrobial | 15 | 31 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 3 |
Other | 3 |
Data from 1,979 hip and 1,427 knee PJIs from the Mayo Clinic Prosthetic Joint Infection Database (E. F. Berbari, personal communication).