Case report: Salmonella infection following total hip arthroplasty

Iowa Orthop J. 2005:25:42-3.

Abstract

A case of a total hip arthroplasty infection with Staphylococcus aureus, co-infected with Salmonella choleraesuis was treated with two-stage exchange and administration of vancomycin and ciprofloxacin. No signs of re-infection have appeared fourteen months after surgery. Cases of salmonella infection of hip prostheses are quite rare, with only a handful of reports in the literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Animals
  • Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip
  • Hip Prosthesis / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Occupational Diseases / microbiology*
  • Prosthesis Failure
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections / microbiology*
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections / surgery*
  • Reoperation
  • Salmonella Infections
  • Salmonella arizonae*
  • Swine