Microbiomes identified after TKA possibly exist in patients’ native knees

摘要

Among?40?patients?who?underwent?total?knee?arthroplasty?for?osteoarthritis,?results?of?a?prospective?cohort?studyshowed?next-generation?sequencing?identified?at?least?one?positive?organism?that?was?native?to?the?patient’s?knee?in12?patients.?Furthermore,?4.6?organisms?were?identified,?on?average,?in?patients?with?positive?next-generationsequencing?results.