Serum IL-6 in combination with synovial IL-6/CRP shows excellent diagnostic power to detect hip and knee prosthetic joint infection

• Jiri Gallo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jiri.gallo@volny.cz

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Teaching Hospital Olomouc, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7424-8653

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• Michal Svoboda,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Teaching Hospital Olomouc, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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• Jana Zapletalova,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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• Jitka Proskova,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Teaching Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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• Jarmila Juranova

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Hemato-Oncology, Teaching Hospital Olomouc, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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