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We describe a case of PJI in a 75-year-old farmer following revision surgery caused by Corynebacterium striatum, an unusual agent which normally occurs in the normal human skin microbiota with perceived low pathogenicity. Following a cemented right-sided total hip arthroplasty in 2006, a one-stage revision due to an osteolytic process in the right femur took place in 2020 with negative intraoperative tissue cultures. Three weeks later, the patient presented a fulminant infection which was treated with debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention (DAIR). Tissue biopsies showed C. striatum in 6\/6 samples including small colony variants. Genome sequencing showed that all isolates differed by \u22646 SNPs with the same gene content related to resistance (tet(W) and erm(X)). The patient was sequentially treated with vancomycin, linezolid, and daptomycin, but due to side effects, treatment was changed to 12 weeks of dalbavancin as a 1000 mg loading dose followed by 500 mg intravenously\/week. Impaired renal function during vancomycin treatment was normalized, and &gt;1 year after finishing antibiotic treatment the outcome was still favourable. In conclusion, a case of a fulminant early post-interventional PJI due to C. striatum was successfully treated with DAIR and long-term dalbavancin therapy without any adverse reactions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/microorganisms11030550","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,22]],"date-time":"2023-02-22T03:59:16Z","timestamp":1677038356000},"page":"550","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Corynebacterium striatum Prosthetic Joint Infection Successfully Treated with Long-Term Dalbavancin"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5939-2932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo","family":"S\u00f6derquist","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, \u00d6rebro University, 701 82 \u00d6rebro, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Thomas","family":"Henningsson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedics, \u00d6rebro University Hospital, 701 85 \u00d6rebro, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0321-1180","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marc","family":"Stegger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, \u00d6rebro University, 701 82 \u00d6rebro, Sweden"},{"name":"Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1491","DOI":"10.1086\/678600","article-title":"Deep Infection after Total Hip Replacement: A Method for National Incidence Surveillance","volume":"35","author":"Lindgren","year":"2014","journal-title":"Infect. 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