Cutibacterium-positive prosthetic joint infection cultures after total hip and total knee arthroplasty may lead to subtle clinical and laboratory changes, according to a presentation at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting.
“It would be important to keep Cutibacterium infection in mind, even if patients are still having pain and questionable infection,” Benjamin Levy, MD, said in his presentation. “The inflammatory markers for Cutibacterium-positive cultures in THA and TKA were often elevated above normal values, though often not as much as the more virulent
