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Prevalence of Propionibacterium acnes in Intervertebral Discs of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study

BACKGROUND: The relationship between intervertebral disc degeneration and chronic infection by Propionibacterium acnes is controversial with contradictory evidence available in the literature. Previous studies investigating these relationships were under-powered and fraught with methodical differenc...

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Autores principales: Capoor, Manu N., Ruzicka, Filip, Machackova, Tana, Jancalek, Radim, Smrcka, Martin, Schmitz, Jonathan E., Hermanova, Marketa, Sana, Jiri, Michu, Elleni, Baird, John C., Ahmed, Fahad S., Maca, Karel, Lipina, Radim, Alamin, Todd F., Coscia, Michael F., Stonemetz, Jerry L., Witham, Timothy, Ehrlich, Garth D., Gokaslan, Ziya L., Mavrommatis, Konstantinos, Birkenmaier, Christof, Fischetti, Vincent A., Slaby, Ondrej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161676