Propionibacterium acnes causing delayed postoperative spine infection: Review

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 6-7, 2010, Pages 405-411

  Haidar, Rachid ^a   Najjar, Marc ^a   Boghossian, Asdghig Der ^a   Tabbarah, Zuhair ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; PROBENECID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PEDICLE SCREW; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INFECTION; SYMPTOM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPINE; SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953273528     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365540903582459     Document Type: Review

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