Remote Transient Lactobacillus Animalis Bacteremia Causing Prosthetic Hip Joint Infection: a Case Report

Overview

Journal BMC Infect Dis

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2016 Nov 6

PMID 27814684

Citations 4

Authors

R Somayaji

T Lynch

J N Powell

D Gregson

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Abstract

Background: Lactobacillus spp. are uncommon pathogens in immunocompetent hosts, and even rarer causes of prosthetic device infections.

Case Presentation: A case of chronic hip prosthetic joint infection (PJI) caused by L. animalis is described. This occurred 5 years after a transient bacteremia with the same organism. Whole genome sequencing of both isolates proved this PJI infection resulted from this remote bacteremia.

Conclusions: We document that prosthetic joint infections may be a consequence of bacteremia as much as 3 years before the onset of symptoms.

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