Journal of Infectious Diseases & Preventive Medicine
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Prosthetic Joint Infections

Prosthetic joint implantations improve patients' quality of life but are associated with complications, including aseptic failure and prosthetic joint infection (PJI). Biofilms are the essential factor in the persistence of infection. Early postoperative and acute hematogenous infections are usually easily diagnosed; however, late chronic infections are challenging to predict. Joint aspiration with differential cell counts appears to be a very useful test.