Epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis

Veillonella species rarely cause serious infections, but the incidence of infection has been increasing among immunocompromised individuals. This case of an epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a hemodialysis patient illustrates the importance of performing anaerobic blo...

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Autores principales: Kurihara, Masaru, Tamaki, Itaru, Tokuda, Yasuharu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8499856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646558
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4660
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description Veillonella species rarely cause serious infections, but the incidence of infection has been increasing among immunocompromised individuals. This case of an epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a hemodialysis patient illustrates the importance of performing anaerobic blood culture in immunocompromised patients with signs of infection.
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spelling pubmed-84998562021-10-12 Epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis Kurihara, Masaru Tamaki, Itaru Tokuda, Yasuharu Clin Case Rep Case Report Veillonella species rarely cause serious infections, but the incidence of infection has been increasing among immunocompromised individuals. This case of an epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a hemodialysis patient illustrates the importance of performing anaerobic blood culture in immunocompromised patients with signs of infection. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8499856/ /pubmed/34646558 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4660 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis
title Epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis
title_full Epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis
title_fullStr Epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis
title_full_unstemmed Epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis
title_short Epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by Veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis
title_sort epidural abscess and spondylitis caused by veillonella parvula in a man on hemodialysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8499856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646558
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4660
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