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A total of 93 patients (44 knee, 49 hip) were retrospectively evaluated, and the most common organism was a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis, followed by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. Of all the organisms, 37.1% were resistant against gentamicin and 54.2% against clindamycin. All organisms were susceptible against vancomycin. In 41 cases, gentamicin-loaded beads were inserted and in 52 cases, spacers: (2 loaded only with gentamicin, 18 with gentamicin + vancomycin, 19 with gentamicin + clindamycin, and 13 with gentamicin + vancomycin + clindamycin). The analysis of each antibiotic impregnation showed that complete susceptibility was present in 38.7% of the cases and partial susceptibility in 28%. In the remaining 33.3%, no precise statement can be made because either there was a culture-negative infection or the antibiotic(s) were not tested against the specific organism. At a mean follow-up of 27.9 months, treatment failure was observed in 6.7% of the cases. Independent of which antibiotic impregnation was used, when the organism was susceptible against the locally inserted antibiotics or not tested, reinfection or persistence of infection was observed in the great majority of cases. Future studies about the investigation of the optimal impregnation of antibiotic-loaded bone cement are welcome.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/antibiotics10020143","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,1]],"date-time":"2021-02-01T22:18:36Z","timestamp":1612217916000},"page":"143","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Are Cement Spacers and Beads Loaded with the Correct Antibiotic(s) at the Site of Periprosthetic Hip and Knee Joint Infections?"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Konstantinos","family":"Anagnostakos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Zentrum f\u00fcr Orthop\u00e4die und Unfallchirurgie, Klinikum Saarbr\u00fccken, D-66119 Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ismail","family":"Sahan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zentrum f\u00fcr Orthop\u00e4die und Unfallchirurgie, Klinikum Saarbr\u00fccken, D-66119 Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"231","DOI":"10.1080\/17434440.2018.1435270","article-title":"Antibiotic-loaded cement spacers\u2014Lessons learned from the past 20 years","volume":"15","author":"Anagnostakos","year":"2018","journal-title":"Expert Rev. 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