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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 2 List of the identified bacteria for the 25 patients the PJI group

From: Synovial fluid pH is as specific as synovial leukocyte count but less sensitive for the diagnosis of chronic prosthetic joint infection

Culture organism

Frequency (%)

Staphylococcus lugdunensis

3.8

Enterobacter cloacae complex

5.8

Corynebacterium

3.8

Staphylococcus epidermidis

17.2

Escherichia coli

3.8

Streptococcus agalactiae

3.8

Enterococcus faecalis

7.7

Staphylococcus caprae

3.8

Staphylococcus aureus

3.8

Staphylococcus capitis

7.7

Streptococcus dysgalactiae

3.8