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Lactobacillus Discitis/Osteomyelitis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser

Vertebral osteomyelitis is usually secondary to hematogenous seeding from direct inoculation during spinal surgery or from adjacent soft tissue infection; the most common organism being Staphylococcus aureus. We present a case of a 31-year-old male who was found to have vertebral osteomyelitis secon...

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Autores principales: Obeidat, Yasmeen, Suliman, Mohamed S, Mullins, Michael, Saunders, Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32821570
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9219