Propionibacterium acnes biofilm is present in intervertebral discs of patients undergoing microdiscectomy

BACKGROUND: In previous studies, Propionibacterium acnes was cultured from intervertebral disc tissue of ~25% of patients undergoing microdiscectomy, suggesting a possible link between chronic bacterial infection and disc degeneration. However, given the prominence of P. acnes as a skin commensal, s...

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Autores principales: Capoor, Manu N., Ruzicka, Filip, Schmitz, Jonathan E., James, Garth A., Machackova, Tana, Jancalek, Radim, Smrcka, Martin, Lipina, Radim, Ahmed, Fahad S., Alamin, Todd F., Anand, Neel, Baird, John C., Bhatia, Nitin, Demir-Deviren, Sibel, Eastlack, Robert K., Fisher, Steve, Garfin, Steven R., Gogia, Jaspaul S., Gokaslan, Ziya L., Kuo, Calvin C., Lee, Yu-Po, Mavrommatis, Konstantinos, Michu, Elleni, Noskova, Hana, Raz, Assaf, Sana, Jiri, Shamie, A. Nick, Stewart, Philip S., Stonemetz, Jerry L., Wang, Jeffrey C., Witham, Timothy F., Coscia, Michael F., Birkenmaier, Christof, Fischetti, Vincent A., Slaby, Ondrej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28369127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174518

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28369127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174518

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