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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 103-B, Issue SUPP_15 | Pages 17 - 17
1 Dec 2021
ARE CUTIBACTERIUM ACNES PRESENT AT THE END OF PRIMARY SHOULDER PROSTHETIC SURGERIES RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY INFECTION? A PROSPECTIVE STUDY
Alier A Torrens C Bellosillo B Gibert J Pérez-Prieto D Corvec S
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Aim

Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes) is the most cultured organism implicated in periprosthetic shoulder infections. Nevertheless, the clinical significance of its persistence on the skin surface and in the deep layers during shoulder arthroplasty surgery remains still unknown. The purpose of this study was to know if the C. acnes isolate present in deep tissues at the end of a primary shoulder arthroplasty could be responsible for shoulder arthroplasty infection.

Method

Prospective study including 156 patients undergoing primary shoulder arthroplasty. In all the patients included 5 to 12 tissue samples were obtained and were specifically cultured to detect C. acnes presence. DNA was extracted from the C. acnes colonies selected with the QIAsymphony DSP Virus/Pathogen Midi Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). Libraries were prepared using Nextera XT kit (Illumina) and sequenced in an Illumina MiSeq sequencer. Sequencing files were pre-processed using The Microbial Genome Atlas pipeline. Samples that failed on QC analysis were discarded for further analysis. Isolate nucleotide distances were calculated using Genome-based distance matrix calculator from the enveomics collection. Comparative genomic analysis was performed between intra- and inter-patients’ isolates. Data analysis was performed using R 3.6.3.