Osteoarticular
infections OA

An osteoarticular infection is an infection caused by bacteria, much more rarely by fungi, which affects a bone, a joint or a joint prosthesis. These are serious pathologies likely to cause very serious disability and sometimes be life-threatening.

Osteoarticular infection requires broad-spectrum probabilistic antibiotic therapy due to the multitude of bacteria that can be involved in the pathology. The sooner the treatment occurs, the less burdensome it will be and the less likely the infection will be complex. Diagnosis should be as early as possible. The future of bacteriological management of AOI will involve the implementation of technologies to quickly identify the responsible bacteria and screen for antibiotic resistance mechanisms.

Dendris with its molecular biology kit, based on DNA biochip technology, provides results in approximately 5 hours, to cover the 22 bacteria mainly responsible for deep and osteoarticular infections as well as resistance to the MecA gene.

The kit includes:
– all the reagents and consumables necessary for carrying out the 16S complex multiplex PCR/specific genes and the hybridization