Obese patients have higher rates of polymicrobial and Gram-negative early periprosthetic joint infections of the hip than non-obese patients.

by Claudia A M Löwik, Wierd P Zijlstra, Bas A S Knobben, Joris J W Ploegmakers, Baukje Dijkstra, Astrid J de Vries, Greetje A Kampinga, Glen Mithoe, Aziz Al Moujahid, Paul C Jutte, Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker, Northern Infection Network Joint Arthroplasty (NINJA)
Published 2019-01-01