Pathogen identification is key to the management of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Staphylococcus epidermidis is a major cause of PJI. Differentiating between invasive and contaminating S. epidermidis from joint specimens is challenging, and usually S. epidermidis is only considered a true invasive isolate when grown from two or more independent tissue samples. Thus, the detection of S. epidermidis in single synovial fl...

Increasing worldwide, prevalence of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria demands urgent a need for rapid detection and accurate identification of carbapenemases. The BD Phoenix CPO detect (PCD) assay possesses an in-built capacity for parallel susceptibility testing and detection of carbapenemases. Here, the ability of the assay to detect and classify carbapenemase production was tested in a collection of carbapenem-res...