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Salmonella enterica var. Enteritidis osteomyelitis with pulmonary involvement in an immunocompetent young woman

IDCases, 2021
Primary bacteremia due to non-typhoid Salmonella often occurs in immunocompromised individuals, but may also occur in immunocompetent individuals. Contrastingly, vertebral osteomyelitis with respiratory involvement caused by non-typhoid Salmonella in ...
Hirokazu Toyoshima, Naoto Masuda, Chiaki Ishiguro, Motoaki Tanigawa, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yuki Nakanishi, Shigetoshi Sakabe   +6 more
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The epidemiology of hematogenous vertebral osteomyelitis: a cohort study in a tertiary care hospital

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2010
Background Vertebral osteomyelitis is a common manifestation of osteomyelitis in adults and associated with considerable morbidity. Limited data exist regarding hematogenous vertebral osteomyelitis.
Wright Neill M, Fraser Victoria J, Olsen Margaret A, Marschall Jonas, Bhavan Kavita P, Warren David K   +5 more
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A case report of native vertebral osteomyelitis caused by Cutibacterium modestum

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Cutibacterium modestum was named in 2020. C. modestum was previously called Propionibacterium humerusii. Several implant-associated infections caused by Cutibacterium species have been previously reported, but native vertebral osteomyelitis ...
Taiji Koyama, Goh Ohji, Masako Nishida, Sho Nishimura, Iku Shirasugi, Kenichiro Ohnuma, Mari Kusuki, Kentaro Iwata   +7 more
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Vertebral osteomyelitis caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum with an associated asymptomatic liver abscess in an immunocompetent adult: A case report and literature review

IDCases, 2023
Fusobacterium nucleatum rarely causes vertebral osteomyelitis or liver abscesses, and no reports exist of it concurrently causing vertebral osteomyelitis and pyogenic liver abscess.
Hirokazu Toyoshima, Motoaki Tanigawa, Chiaki Ishiguro, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yuki Nakanishi, Shigetoshi Sakabe   +5 more
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Surgical Management of Thoracic Osteomyelitis due to Escherichia Coli Sepsis

Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2020
Case Report. Escherichia coli is a rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis. It is more common in adults and males. We present a case of an immunocompetent adult male presenting with a several month history of progressive systemic symptoms and subsequent ...
Mark K. Lyons, Maziyar Kalani, Matthew T. Neal, Naresh P. Patel   +3 more
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Progression of Infection after Surgical CT Navigation-Assisted Aspiration Biopsy of a Vertebral Abscess

Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2016
Background Context. Computed tomography- (CT-) guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the vertebral body is an important tool in the diagnostic evaluation of vertebral osteomyelitis.
Vasiliki Spyropoulou, Raimunda Valaikaite, Amira Dhouib, Romain Dayer, Dimitri Ceroni   +4 more
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Cervical anaerobic vertebral osteomyelitis following surgical tracheotomy: a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background We report a rare case of anaerobic vertebral osteomyelitis associated with surgical tracheotomy which has never been reported to the best of our knowledge. Case presentation A healthy 39-year-old man was admitted to intensive care for a severe
Romaric Larcher, Camille Maury, Jonathan Charbit, Helene Jean-Pierre, Vincent Le Moing, Kada Klouche, Xavier Capdevila   +6 more
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Atlantoaxial instability secondary to Bartonella henselae osteomyelitis managed surgically by atlantoaxial instrumentation: A case report and systematic review

Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine, 2022
Cat scratch disease (CSD), caused by Bartonella henselae, may atypically present with vertebral osteomyelitis. Antibiotic regimens are tailored to presentation, which is markedly variable and not well defined for any atypical disease.
Mansour Mathkour, Julie Chu, Tyler Scullen, Naser Ibrahim, Cassidy Werner, Christopher J Carr, Brendan Huang, Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, Robert F Dallapiazza, Christopher M Maulucci, Manish Singh   +10 more
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Mucormycosis Vertebral Osteomyelitis

Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation, 2018
Fungal vertebral osteomyelitis by mucormycosis is extremely rare. We report a 16-year-old patient with newly diagnosed acute lymphoid leukaemia who developed extensive vertebral osteomyelitis caused by mucormycosis.
Chan Chun Fung, Wong Martin Chung Ting, Cheung Ka Kin, Cheng Hung On, Yim Wing Ngai, Wen Eleanor   +5 more
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Lumbar vertebral diskitis-osteomyelitis with mycotic abdominal aortic aneurysm caused by Streptococcus mitis

Radiology Case Reports
Vertebral osteomyelitis is a well-documented disease entity in literature with various known etiologies. However, vertebral diskitis-osteomyelitis secondary to an infected aortic aneurysm is an uncommon and life-threatening complication.
Anas Sayed Suliman Atassi, MD, George K. Vilanilam, MBBS, Rangarajan Purushothaman, MD, Razvan Zemianschi, MD, Ishan Pandey, BBA, Kurt J. Messer, MD, Surjith Vattoth, MD, FRCR   +6 more
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