Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine

Pott's disease is an infection of the spine with Mycobacterium tuberculosis that causes destruction of the spine elements resulting in progressive kyphosis. We are describing a rare case of Pott's disease where Mycobacterium xenopi was the inculpated organism.

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Autores principales: Alfreijat, Majd, Ononiwu, Chiagozie, Sexton, Carlton
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23882381
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v2i4.20150
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Ononiwu, Chiagozie
Sexton, Carlton
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spelling pubmed-37151502013-07-23 Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine Alfreijat, Majd Ononiwu, Chiagozie Sexton, Carlton J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Imaging Column Pott's disease is an infection of the spine with Mycobacterium tuberculosis that causes destruction of the spine elements resulting in progressive kyphosis. We are describing a rare case of Pott's disease where Mycobacterium xenopi was the inculpated organism. Co-Action Publishing 2013-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3715150/ /pubmed/23882381 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v2i4.20150 Text en © 2012 Majd Alfreijat et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine
title Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine
title_full Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine
title_fullStr Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine
title_full_unstemmed Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine
title_short Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine
title_sort pott's disease: a case of mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23882381
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v2i4.20150
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