Bacteriophages as adjuvant to antibiotics for the treatment of periprosthetic joint infection caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Bacteriophages as adjuvant to antibiotics for the treatment of periprosthetic joint infection caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2019 Sep 16;:
Authors: Tkhilaishvili T, Winkler T, Müller M, Perka C, Trampuz A
Abstract
We documented the adjunctive bacteriophage therapy to treat a chronic relapsing periprosthetic joint infection of the knee and chronic osteomyelitis of the femur, caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa The combined antibiotic/phage treatment eradicated the infection and no side effects to phages were observed.
PMID: 31527029 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy - Category: Microbiology Authors: Tkhilaishvili T, Winkler T, Müller M, Perka C, Trampuz A Tags: Antimicrob Agents Chemother Source Type: research