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What Is the Optimal Number of Samples for Culture in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Foot and Ankle Infections?
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What Is the Optimal Number of Samples for Culture in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Foot and Ankle Infections?

Yasuhito Tanaka, Amiethab Aiyer, Eiichiro Iwata, Yusuke Yamamoto and Michael R Mijares
Foot & ankle international, Vol.40(1_suppl), pp.32S-33S
2019-07
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1071100719859886
PMID: 31322944

Abstract

Arthroplasty, Replacement, Ankle - adverse effects Humans Microbiological Techniques Monitoring, Intraoperative Prosthesis-Related Infections - microbiology Prosthesis-Related Infections - surgery Reoperation
The optimal number of samples for culture in patients undergoing surgery for foot and ankle infections is unknown. We recommend that multiple tissue samples be taken. Consensus. Agree: 100%, Disagree: 0%, Abstain: 0% (Unanimous, Strongest Consensus).

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