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Volume 23, Issue 3

Case Report

A Case of Spondylodiscitis and Paraspinal Abscess Due to Gemella haemolysans

Hale Turan
Affiliations
  • Başkent Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Özgür Özdemir
Affiliations
  • Başkent Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Nöroşirürji Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Özlem Kurt-Azap
Affiliations
  • Başkent Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Hande Arslan
Affiliations
  • Başkent Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye
  • abscess
  • discitis
  • Gemella

Abstract

A 56 year-old male presented to the hospital for low back pain of five-months duration. On lumbo-sacral magnetic resonance imaging, a dense contrast enhancement compatible with spondylodiscitis involving L5-S1 intervertebral disk, together with a paraspinal abscess was detected. Gemella haemolysans grew in blood cultures. The isolate was susceptible to amoxicillin-clavulanate and ciprofloxacin according to antibiotic susceptibility testing. At the end of the six-month treatment, the patient’s low back pain recovered completely. It should not be forgotten that G. haemolysans may play a role in the etiology of spondylodiscitis despite its rarity.

  • 138-140
  • 10.5152/kd.2010.36
  • July 23, 2019
  • 2016
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