Hematogenous Long Bone Osteomyelitis by Prevotella (Bacteroides) Melaninogenicus

Anaerobic infections are difficult to recognize and may lead to life threatening complications. We present the case of an acute Prevotella hematogenous infection of the humerus in a previously healthy adult patient, treated with a two-stage surgical treatment, emphasizing on the importance of the ra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Karabinas, Panagiotis K, Stergios, Evangelopoulos Dimitrios, Athanasopoulou, Marina G, Vlamis, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22043262
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr465w
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Sumario:Anaerobic infections are difficult to recognize and may lead to life threatening complications. We present the case of an acute Prevotella hematogenous infection of the humerus in a previously healthy adult patient, treated with a two-stage surgical treatment, emphasizing on the importance of the radical surgical debridement and the selection of the appropriate antimicrobial agents. To our knowledge, such an acute hematogenous infection has not been previously reported in the literature. KEYWORDS: Osteomyelitis; Gram-negative hematogenous infections; Two stage surgical treatment

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