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Clinical Infectious Diseases
Reports outline clinical infectious diseases study findings from P.Y. Levy and colleagues
July 8th, 2008
"The purpose of this study, which involved 276 patients, was to report the importance of Propionibacterium acnes in shoulder infections," investigators in Marseille, France report. "The proportion of patients with shoulder infection who had infection due to P. acnes was significantly greater than the proportion of patients with lower limb infection who had infection due to P. acnes (9 of 16 patients vs. 1 of 233 patients; P<.001)," wrote P.Y. Levy and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "This bacterium requires a prolonged incubation period and should not be considered to be a contaminant." Levy and colleagues published...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-08)
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