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Lumbar discitis caused by Clostridium perfringens.

Romain Lotte1, M R Popoff2, Nicolas Degand3, Laurene Lotte3, Philippe Bouvet2, Guillaume Baudin4, Eric Cua5, Pierre-Marie Roger6, Raymond Ruimy7.   

Abstract

We report here a rare case of chronic lumbar discitis caused by Clostridium perfringens in an elderly patient that was treated with a combination of β-lactams and clindamycin. Molecular analysis performed on the strain revealed an unusual toxin gene pattern.
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Year:  2014        PMID: 25056327      PMCID: PMC4187755          DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00983-14

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Clin Microbiol        ISSN: 0095-1137            Impact factor:   5.948


  11 in total

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Journal:  Methods Mol Biol       Date:  2003

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3.  Skewed genomic variability in strains of the toxigenic bacterial pathogen, Clostridium perfringens.

Authors:  Garry S A Myers; David A Rasko; Jackie K Cheung; Jacques Ravel; Rekha Seshadri; Robert T DeBoy; Qinghu Ren; John Varga; Milena M Awad; Lauren M Brinkac; Sean C Daugherty; Daniel H Haft; Robert J Dodson; Ramana Madupu; William C Nelson; M J Rosovitz; Steven A Sullivan; Hoda Khouri; George I Dimitrov; Kisha L Watkins; Stephanie Mulligan; Jonathan Benton; Diana Radune; Derek J Fisher; Helen S Atkins; Tom Hiscox; B Helen Jost; Stephen J Billington; J Glenn Songer; Bruce A McClane; Richard W Titball; Julian I Rood; Stephen B Melville; Ian T Paulsen
Journal:  Genome Res       Date:  2006-07-06       Impact factor: 9.043

Review 4.  Novel insights into the epidemiology of Clostridium perfringens type A food poisoning.

Authors:  Miia Lindström; Annamari Heikinheimo; Päivi Lahti; Hannu Korkeala
Journal:  Food Microbiol       Date:  2010-04-13       Impact factor: 5.516

5.  Postoperative Clostridium perfringens lumbar discitis with septicemia: report of a case with survival.

Authors:  Drew A Bednar
Journal:  J Spinal Disord Tech       Date:  2002-04

6.  Differences in the carboxy-terminal (Putative phospholipid binding) domains of Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium bifermentans phospholipases C influence the hemolytic and lethal properties of these enzymes.

Authors:  M Jepson; A Howells; H L Bullifent; B Bolgiano; D Crane; J Miller; J Holley; P Jayasekera; R W Titball
Journal:  Infect Immun       Date:  1999-07       Impact factor: 3.441

7.  [Role of iatrogenic spondylodiscitis among pyogenic spondylodiscitis. 136 cases observed between 1980 and 1989].

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8.  Discitis due to Clostridium perfringens.

Authors:  Anne Caudron; Franck Grados; Youcef Boubrit; Jean Michel Coullet; Dominique Merrien; Yves Domart
Journal:  Joint Bone Spine       Date:  2007-08-31       Impact factor: 4.929

9.  Discitis due to Clostridium perfringens.

Authors:  J L Beguiristain; J de Pablos; R Llombart; A Gómez
Journal:  Spine (Phila Pa 1976)       Date:  1986-03       Impact factor: 3.468

10.  Genetic characterization of type A enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains.

Authors:  Agi Deguchi; Kazuaki Miyamoto; Tomomi Kuwahara; Yasuhiro Miki; Ikuko Kaneko; Jihong Li; Bruce A McClane; Shigeru Akimoto
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2009-05-19       Impact factor: 3.240

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  3 in total

1.  Discitis and Clostridium perfringens bacteraemia.

Authors:  Chen Han Yong; Miranda Lam
Journal:  BMJ Case Rep       Date:  2017-07-26

2.  A 64-Year-Old Man with Low Back Pain Due to Clostridium perfringens Lumbar Discitis.

Authors:  Harshil Bhatt; Sandeep Singh
Journal:  Am J Case Rep       Date:  2021-01-22

3.  Clostridium perfringens in the spine: A rare cause of post-surgical infection.

Authors:  Omar Marroquin-Herrera; Santiago Andres Rosales-Camargo; Luis Carlos Morales-Sáenz; Fernando Alvarado-Gomez
Journal:  Surg Neurol Int       Date:  2021-11-02
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