Letter to the Editor: New Definition for Periprosthetic Joint Infection: From the Workgroup of the Musculoskeletal Infection Society

Affiliations

¹ Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. willem-jan.metsemakers@uzleuven.be.
² AO Research Institute Davos, Davos, Switzerland.
³ Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁵ Orthopaedic Septic Surgical Unit, Department of the Locomotor Apparatus Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
⁷ Department of Trauma Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Willem-Jan Metsemakers et al. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2016 Dec.

. 2016 Dec;474(12):2726-2727.

doi: 10.1007/s11999-016-5087-6. Epub 2016 Sep 29.

¹ Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. willem-jan.metsemakers@uzleuven.be.
² AO Research Institute Davos, Davos, Switzerland.
³ Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁵ Orthopaedic Septic Surgical Unit, Department of the Locomotor Apparatus Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
⁷ Department of Trauma Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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