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The most common bacteria in PJI are <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic> und <jats:italic>S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We present the case of a 72-year-old woman who received total hip arthroplasty after a traumatic medial femoral neck fracture. Postoperatively, due to the clinical presentation of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) revision surgery was performed twice. The microbiological tissue samples were positive for <jats:italic>Kocuria spp<\/jats:italic>. Initially, this was considered contamination and the patient was treated with various antibiotic regimens as well as prednisolone due to the differential diagnosis of pyoderma gangraenosum. However, a specialized histopathology lab performed further testing which substantiated the suspicion of a rare case of PJI due to <jats:italic>Kocuria spp<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a PJI caused by <jats:italic>Kocuria spp<\/jats:italic>. Further clinical research is necessary to assess whether <jats:italic>Kocuria spp<\/jats:italic>. are an underestimated cause of PJI.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12877-023-04286-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,28]],"date-time":"2023-09-28T08:02:19Z","timestamp":1695888139000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["A rare case of periprosthetic joint infection of the hip due to Kocuria spp."],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2038-8623","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nora Anais","family":"Koenemann","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fabian","family":"Sauerwald","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dierk","family":"Thimel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Edgar","family":"Mayr","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,28]]},"reference":[{"issue":"10","key":"4286_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3238","DOI":"10.1016\/j.arth.2018.05.042","volume":"33","author":"SM Kurtz","year":"2018","unstructured":"Kurtz SM, Lau EC, Son MS, Chang ET, Zimmerli W, Parvizi J. 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