An Extremely Uncommon Infection: Candida glabrata Arthritis after Total Knee Arthroplasty

Halil Doğruel, Şöhret Gamberzade

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2002 · 31 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

Prosthetic arthritis caused by Candida species is extremely rare. Of 30 such cases reported in the English literature, only 3 were due to Candida glabrata. We present herein a fourth case; to the best of our knowledge this is the first example of knee arthroplasty infection caused by C. glabrata.

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