%0 Journal Article
%T Intraoperative culture positive allograft bone and subsequent postoperative infections: a retrospective review
%A Allan Woo
%A Laura Sims
%A Paul Kulyk
%J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery".
%D 2017
%R 10.1503/cjs.008016
%X Obtaining intraoperative cultures of allograft bone just before use in orthopedic procedures is standard practice in many centres; however, the association between positive cultures and subsequent surgical infections is unknown. Our study had 3 goals: to determine the prevalence of positive intraoperative allograft culture and subsequent infection; to determine if, in cases of subsequent infection, organisms isolated at reoperation were the same as those cultured from the allograft at the time of the index procedure; and to assess the costs associated with performing intraoperative allograft cultures
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5373722/