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Case Reports in Orthopedics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 691703, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/691703
Case Report
Gemella haemolysans Infection in Total Hip Arthroplasty
1Department of Orthopaedics, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St. Peters Road, Margate, Kent CT9 4AN, UK
2Orthopaedic Department, SPORTSMED. SA, 32 Payneham Road, Stepney, SA 5069, Australia
Received 29 December 2011; Accepted 15 March 2012
Academic Editors: K.-I. KIM, S. A. Papadakis, and S. N. Parikh
Copyright © 2012 Barry Rose et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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