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Septic arthritis due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a native joint

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  1. Infectious Disease Unit, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

    Moti Grupper & Israel Potasman

  2. Rheumatology Department, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

    Itzhak Rosner, Gleb Slobodin & Michael Rozenbaum

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Grupper, M., Potasman, I., Rosner, I. et al. Septic arthritis due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a native joint. Rheumatol Int 30, 1231–1233 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-009-1044-y

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