Lumbar Spondylodiscitis Caused by Burkholderia cepacia in a Previously Healthy Patient

Burkholderia cepacia spondylodiscitis is a rare entity that has been reported in only four cases. We hereby report the case of a 43-year-old, previously healthy, woman who was found to have a B. cepacia spondylodiscitis after a cholecystectomy. She was treated with a three-month regimen of ceftazidi...

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Autores principales: Jaafar, Danielle, Rizkallah, Maroun, Atallah, Firas, Bachour, Falah, Barakat, Angelique, Maalouf, Ghassan, Matta, Matta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5661097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29163994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1396950
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author Jaafar, Danielle
Rizkallah, Maroun
Atallah, Firas
Bachour, Falah
Barakat, Angelique
Maalouf, Ghassan
Matta, Matta
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Rizkallah, Maroun
Atallah, Firas
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Matta, Matta
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description Burkholderia cepacia spondylodiscitis is a rare entity that has been reported in only four cases. We hereby report the case of a 43-year-old, previously healthy, woman who was found to have a B. cepacia spondylodiscitis after a cholecystectomy. She was treated with a three-month regimen of ceftazidime and ciprofloxacin with complete clinical, biological, and radiological remission.
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spelling pubmed-56610972017-11-21 Lumbar Spondylodiscitis Caused by Burkholderia cepacia in a Previously Healthy Patient Jaafar, Danielle Rizkallah, Maroun Atallah, Firas Bachour, Falah Barakat, Angelique Maalouf, Ghassan Matta, Matta Case Rep Orthop Case Report Burkholderia cepacia spondylodiscitis is a rare entity that has been reported in only four cases. We hereby report the case of a 43-year-old, previously healthy, woman who was found to have a B. cepacia spondylodiscitis after a cholecystectomy. She was treated with a three-month regimen of ceftazidime and ciprofloxacin with complete clinical, biological, and radiological remission. Hindawi 2017 2017-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5661097/ /pubmed/29163994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1396950 Text en Copyright © 2017 Danielle Jaafar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Lumbar Spondylodiscitis Caused by Burkholderia cepacia in a Previously Healthy Patient
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title_full Lumbar Spondylodiscitis Caused by Burkholderia cepacia in a Previously Healthy Patient
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title_short Lumbar Spondylodiscitis Caused by Burkholderia cepacia in a Previously Healthy Patient
title_sort lumbar spondylodiscitis caused by burkholderia cepacia in a previously healthy patient
topic Case Report
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