JBJI Journal of Bone and Joint Infection JBJI J. Bone Joint Infect. 2206-3552 Ivyspring Göttingen, Germany 10.7150/jbji.30491 Are All Joints Equal? Synovial Fluid Analysis in Periprosthetic Joint Infection Sendi Parham ^{1 2 3} Müller Andreas M. ² Berbari Elie ⁴ 1 Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. 3 Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 4 Division of Infectious Disease, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. 04 12 2018 3 5 258 259 Copyright: © 2018 Parham Sendi et al. 2018 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://jbji.copernicus.org/articles/3/258/2018/jbji-3-258-2018.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://jbji.copernicus.org/articles/3/258/2018/jbji-3-258-2018.pdf

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