Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.44621
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.44621
Original full-length article
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16 May 2020
Original full-length article |  | 16 May 2020

Culturing Periprosthetic Tissues in BacT/Alert® Virtuo Blood Culture Bottles for a Short Duration of Post-operative Empirical Antibiotic Therapy

Claire Duployez, Frédéric Wallet, Henri Migaud, Eric Senneville, and Caroline Loiez

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