Orthopedic implant-associated infections caused by Cutibacterium spp. – A remaining diagnostic challenge

• Nora Renz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nora Renz, Stasa Mudrovcic

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nora.renz@charite.de

  Affiliation Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8011-6684

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• Stasa Mudrovcic ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nora Renz, Stasa Mudrovcic

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Berlin, Germany

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• Carsten Perka,

  Roles Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

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• Andrej Trampuz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

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