Fig. 1From: Culturing periprosthetic tissue in BacT/Alert® Virtuo blood culture system leads to improved and faster detection of prosthetic joint infectionsFlowchart of study design. A and D are common processes through all the methods (i.e. spiking experiments, blood culture bottle (BCB) method and conventional method). * spiked tissue was only tested using the BCB method. MALDI-TOF MS, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometryBack to article page