Should We Use Rifampicin in Periprosthetic Joint Infections Caused by Staphylococci When the Implant Has Been Exchanged? A Multicenter Observational Cohort Study

Tobias Siegfried Kramer; Alex Soriano; Sarah Tedeschi; Antonia F Chen; Pierre Tattevin; Eric Senneville; Joan Gomez-Junyent; Victoria Birlutiu; Sabine Petersdorf; Vicens Diaz de Brito; Ignacio Sancho Gonzalez; Katherine A Belden; Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae075

Should We Use Rifampicin in Periprosthetic Joint Infections Caused by Staphylococci When the Implant Has Been Exchanged? A Multicenter Observational Cohort Study

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 8;11(3):ofae075. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae075. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Authors

Tobias Siegfried Kramer^{1

2

3}, Alex Soriano⁴, Sarah Tedeschi^{5

6}, Antonia F Chen⁷, Pierre Tattevin⁸, Eric Senneville⁹, Joan Gomez-Junyent¹⁰, Victoria Birlutiu¹¹, Sabine Petersdorf¹², Vicens Diaz de Brito¹³, Ignacio Sancho Gonzalez¹⁴, Katherine A Belden¹⁵, Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
² Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland.
³ LADR der Laborverbund Dr. Kramer & Kollegen, Geesthacht, Germany.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁶ Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universistaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁷ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care Unit, Pontchaillou University Hospital, Rennes, France.
⁹ French National Referent Centre for Complex Bone and Joint Infections, CRIOAC Lille-Tourcoing, Lille, France.
¹⁰ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Infectious Pathology and Antimicrobial Research Group (IPAR), Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), CEXS-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
¹¹ Clinical Hospital of Orthopedics, Traumatology, and Osteoarticular TB, Bucharest, Romania.
¹² Institute for Medical Laboratory Diagnostics, Helios University Clinic Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.
¹³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Sant Boi (Barcelona), Spain.
¹⁴ Servicio de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital Universitario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
¹⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Sidney Kimmel Medical college at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

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