“…To this end, numerous researchers have focused on improving existing methods for diagnosing infection (ie, preoperative and intraoperative cultures [2,3,16,27,46] and Gram stain [2,12,20,49], serum markers of inflammation [19,23,27], synovial white blood cell [WBC] count and polymorphonuclear [PMN] percentages [5,21,29,34,48], intraoperative frozen section [11,14,15,17,42] and preoperative tissue biopsy [32,36], and nuclear medicine…”