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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2000, p. 929-930, Vol. 38, No. 2
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Infection of a Hip Prosthesis by Actinomyces naeslundii

Jürg Wüst,1,* Ulrich Steiger,2 Hanh Vuong,1 and Reinhard Zbinden3

Diagnostica Medical Laboratory,1 Hirslanden Hospital,2 and Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich,3 Zurich, Switzerland

Received 2 August 1999/Accepted 8 November 1999

We present the case of a 77-year-old woman who developed an Actinomyces naeslundii infection of a hip prosthesis. The isolate grew well aerobically with 5% CO2. Possible diagnostic problems may arise in the microbiological laboratory because aerobic growth is not sufficiently accounted for in some of the traditional identification schemes and commercial test kits. Therefore, besides presenting an unusual pathogen in this setting, this report focuses on possible diagnostic problems in the microbiological laboratory.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Labor Diagnostica, Dufourstrasse 90, CH-8034 Zürich, Switzerland. Phone: 41-1-383 89 50. Fax: 41-1-383 83 47. E-mail: jwust{at}unilabs.ch.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2000, p. 929-930, Vol. 38, No. 2
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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