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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2008, p. 1556-1557, Vol. 46, No. 4
0095-1137/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.02451-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Prosthetic Hip Infection Caused by Tropheryma whipplei{triangledown}

Julie Cremniter,1* Thomas Bauer,2 Alain Lortat-Jacob,2 Dominique Vodovar,3 Jean-Marie Le Parc,3 Jean-François Emile,4 Brigitte Franc,4 Pierre Sebbag,5 Jean-Louis Gaillard,1 and Beate Heym1

Microbiology Department,1 Orthopedic Surgery Department,2 Rhumatology Department,3 Pathology Department, Hôpital Ambroise Paré AP-HP, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Boulogne-Billancourt,4 Marly le Roi, France5

Received 20 December 2007/ Returned for modification 4 February 2008/ Accepted 8 February 2008

We report a case of prosthetic hip infection due to Tropheryma whipplei in a 74-year-old man not previously known to have Whipple's disease. Diagnosis was based on systematic 16S rRNA gene amplification and sequencing of samples obtained during revision hip arthroplasty.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, 9 avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Phone: 33 1 49095540. Fax: 33 1 49095921. E-mail: julie.cremniter{at}apr.aphp.fr

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 20 February 2008.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2008, p. 1556-1557, Vol. 46, No. 4
0095-1137/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.02451-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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