Characterization of Cutibacterium acnes isolated from prosthetic joint infections and healthy skin
Elena De Vecchi, Marta Bottagisio, Alessandro Bidossi, Francesca Villa, Nicola Logoluso, Luigi Zagra · 2026
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Description
Elena De Vecchi and five co-authors shared a study in twenty twenty-six. They compared a skin germ from infected joint prostheses with strains from healthy skin. The germ is Cutibacterium acnes. It lives on most people and does no harm there. Yet it can cause implant infections that are hard to shake. If the bad strains had clear traits, staff could spot risk in advance.
The team compared twenty clinical isolates with seven skin strains. They checked drug sensitivity, clumping, and biofilm building. They read all the genomes too. On nearly all points, the two groups matched. One trait stood out. The clinical strains let out more extracellular DNA. Family trees split the strains by sequence type. They did not split the harmful ones from the harmless ones. The grim point is plain. The two forms of this germ look essentially the same.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elena De Vecchi, Marta Bottagisio, Alessandro Bidossi, Francesca Villa, Nicola Logoluso, Luigi Zagra |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |