J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2019;28(1):1-8.
Comparative Study:In a prospective study, routine cultures and next-generation sequencing (NGS) were compared in tissues taken from 44 revision shoulder arthroplasty patients. Defined infection definitions were used when analyzing culture and NGS for concordance. There were no polymicrobial culture results, whereas the NGS results suggested most the infections were polymicrobial. Read Study