Prevalence of Propionibacterium acnes in Intervertebral Discs of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study

BACKGROUND: The relationship between intervertebral disc degeneration and chronic infection by Propionibacterium acnes is controversial with contradictory evidence available in the literature. Previous studies investigating these relationships were under-powered and fraught with methodical differenc...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Capoor, Manu N., Ruzicka, Filip, Machackova, Tana, Jancalek, Radim, Smrcka, Martin, Schmitz, Jonathan E., Hermanova, Marketa, Sana, Jiri, Michu, Elleni, Baird, John C., Ahmed, Fahad S., Maca, Karel, Lipina, Radim, Alamin, Todd F., Coscia, Michael F., Stonemetz, Jerry L., Witham, Timothy, Ehrlich, Garth D., Gokaslan, Ziya L., Mavrommatis, Konstantinos, Birkenmaier, Christof, Fischetti, Vincent A., Slaby, Ondrej
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990245/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536784
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161676
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