Publications
| laboratory and clinical characteristics of staphylococcus lugdunensis prosthetic joint infections. | staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative staphylococcus that has several similarities to staphylococcus aureus. s. lugdunensis is increasingly being recognized as a cause of prosthetic joint infection (pji). the goal of the present retrospective cohort study was to determine the laboratory and clinical characteristics of s. lugdunensis pjis seen at the mayo clinic in rochester, mn, between 1 january 1998 and 31 december 2007. kaplan-meier survival methods and wilcoxon sum-rank analysis ... | 2010 | 20181900 |
| matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry and diagnostic testing for prosthetic joint infection in the clinical microbiology laboratory. | identification of pathogen(s) associated with prosthetic joint infection (pji) is critical for patient management. historically, many laboratories have not routinely identified organisms such as coagulase-negative staphylococci to the species level. the advent of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (maldi-tof ms) has enhanced clinical laboratory capacity for accurate species-level identification. the aim of this study was to describe the species-level ide ... | 2015 | 25533615 |