A case of not just Pott’s disease

Spinal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis in the developed world. Co-infections with other microorganisms are seldom reported in the literature. Here we report a case of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Streptococcus anginosus causing acute on chronic vertebral osteomyelitis...

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Autores principales: Greene, William, Prager, Martin, Richardson, Marlin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8411640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20499361211041451
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description Spinal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis in the developed world. Co-infections with other microorganisms are seldom reported in the literature. Here we report a case of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Streptococcus anginosus causing acute on chronic vertebral osteomyelitis with an epidural abscess.
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spelling pubmed-84116402021-09-03 A case of not just Pott’s disease Greene, William Prager, Martin Richardson, Marlin Ther Adv Infect Dis Case Report Spinal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis in the developed world. Co-infections with other microorganisms are seldom reported in the literature. Here we report a case of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Streptococcus anginosus causing acute on chronic vertebral osteomyelitis with an epidural abscess. SAGE Publications 2021-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8411640/ /pubmed/34484737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20499361211041451 Text en © The Author(s), 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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