Propionibacterium acnes vertebral osteomyelitis: Seek and ye shall find?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 461, Issue , 2007, Pages 25-30

  Kowalski, Todd J ^a,b   Berbari, Elie F ^a   Huddleston, Paul M ^a   Steckelberg, James M ^a   Osmon, Douglas R ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; SPINE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 34548349353     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e318073c25d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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