*Diagnostic cutoff level determined using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. **Patients with connective-tissue disorders were excluded from analysis. ***Patients with a preoperative dia
Optimization of prosthetic joint infection sample DNA extraction for Nanopore sequencing. Saponin treated and 5 micrometer filter treatet samples. Sequenced with Oxford nanopore MinION using rapid pre
Metatranscriptomics and metagenomics have high concordance with culture results and were able to discriminate between infected and uninfected joint specimens more accurately as compared to 16S and met
