A neglected pathogen responsible for deep infections: A case report of spondylodiscitis due to Lactobacillus sp.;Un pathogène rare responsable d'infections profondes : un cas clinique de spondylodiscite due à Lactobacillus sp.

Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 302-303

  Pailhories H ^a   Sanderink, D ^a   Abgueguen, P ^a   Lemarie C ^a  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Lactobacillus casei paracasei; MALDI TOF mass spectrometry; Spondylodiscitis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; RNA 16S;

ABSCESS; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISK DIFFUSION; FIFTH LUMBAR VERTEBRA; FOURTH LUMBAR VERTEBRA; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INCUBATION TIME; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LABORATORY TEST; LACTOBACILLUS; LETTER; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; OSTEOLYSIS; PARAVERTEBRAL ABSCESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSOAS MUSCLE; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SINUS NODE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THIRD LUMBAR VERTEBRA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UMBILICAL HERNIA; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING DIFFICULTY; DISKITIS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISCITIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE;

EID: 85018793921     PISSN: 0399077X     EISSN: 17696690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2017.03.006     Document Type: Letter

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