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Articles | Volume 2, issue 4

Articles | Volume 2, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.22062

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.22062

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2, issue 4

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Are There Benefits In Early Diagnosis Of Prosthetic Joint Infection With Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction?

Christian Lausmann, Akos Zahar, Mustafa Citak, Julian Brañes, Stefan Schmidl, Lars Frommelt, Thorsten Gehrke, and Matthias Gebauer

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