Campylobacter fetus spondylodiscitis: A case report and review of the literature

Campylobacter are common zoonotic food borne pathogens but infrequent causes of disseminated human infection. Campylobacter fetus is an unusual cause of human infection and spondylodiscitis. We describe a case of C. fetus infection in a 72-year-old woman who presented with indolent onset lumbar spon...

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Autores principales: Olaiya, Daniel, Fok, Rosemary, Chakrabarti, Prithwiraj, Sharma, Himanshu, Greig, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6251783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30479962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00468
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Sumario:Campylobacter are common zoonotic food borne pathogens but infrequent causes of disseminated human infection. Campylobacter fetus is an unusual cause of human infection and spondylodiscitis. We describe a case of C. fetus infection in a 72-year-old woman who presented with indolent onset lumbar spondylodiscitis. The literature is reviewed and the presentation of spondylodiscitis is contrasted with the usual aggressive nature of bacteremia with this pathogen.

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