Mycobacteriumabscessus-associated vertebral osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient: a rare case report and literature review

INTRODUCTION: Vertebral osteomyelitis (VO) is an uncommon infection with Staphylococcus aureus as the most commonly implicated organism. VO caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) such as Mycobacterium abscessus (M. abscesscus) is exceedingly rare with only eight cases reported in literature. CA...

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Autores principales: Moral, Muhammad Z., Desai, Khusboo, Arain, Abdul R., O’Leary, Robert E., Haddad, Stefanos F., Lawrence, James P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31632711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41394-019-0197-5

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