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Abstract

A rare case of a severe prosthetic joint infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent woman is presented. was identified in two consecutive samples using broad-range PCR and sequencing, whereas cultivation remained negative for the first sample and streptococci of a non-group A streptococci, non-group B streptococci type were detected for the second one. This report demonstrates that the phenotypic approach may lead to misidentification of in a routine clinical setting. Molecular methods of pathogen detection might be useful when a rare and/or unexpected micro-organism is present or the sample is collected during antibiotic treatment.

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