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Prosthetic hip infection caused by Tropheryma whipplei |
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| Authors: | Cremniter Julie Bauer Thomas Lortat-Jacob Alain Vodovar Dominique Le Parc Jean-Marie Emile Jean-François Franc Brigitte Sebbag Pierre Gaillard Jean-Louis Heym Beate |
| Affiliation: | Microbiology Department,1. Orthopedic Surgery Department,2. Rhumatology Department,3. Pathology Department, Hôpital Ambroise Paré AP-HP, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Boulogne-Billancourt,4. Marly le Roi, France5. |
| Abstract: | We report a case of prosthetic hip infection due to Tropheryma whipplei in a 74-year-old man not previously known to have Whipple's disease. Diagnosis was based on systematic 16S rRNA gene amplification and sequencing of samples obtained during revision hip arthroplasty. |
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