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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
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
Materias:
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

Ejemplares similares

Ejemplares similares