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The gold standard method for detecting and identifying the causative microorganism is culture of microorganisms from patients-derived sample.; however, this method takes a long time and has low sensitivity. To compensate for these limitations, identification methods based on real-time PCR (RT-PCR) have been widely used. However, RT-PCR also has limitations, including low sensitivity and the requirement of a standard curve for quantification. Therefore, to prevent significant proliferation of pathogenic bacteria, it is important to detect a limited number of infectious bacteria during early stages of PJI. In the present study, we developed droplet digital PCR-based detection of bacterial pathogens in PJI. And we evaluated the analytical performance of the assay using a model plasmid, based on the 16S ribosomal DNA sequence of target bacteria commonly found in PJI. We also prepared genomic DNA extracted from <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic> to test whether ddPCR provides better sensitivity and quantification of the target sequences. ddPCR detected 400 attograms of target DNA, which was more than 10 times less than that detected by real-time PCR using synthesized plasmid. In addition, ddPCR detected target regions from genomic DNA of 50 femtograms for <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>, 70 femtograms for <jats:italic>S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic>, and 90 femtograms for <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic>. 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