Late Spinal Implant Infection caused by Cutibacterium acnes

Valentin Gisler; Lorin Benneker; Parham Sendi

doi:10.7150/jbji.36802

Late Spinal Implant Infection caused by Cutibacterium acnes

J Bone Jt Infect. 2019 Jul 25;4(4):163-166. doi: 10.7150/jbji.36802. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Valentin Gisler^{1

2}, Lorin Benneker³, Parham Sendi^{4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
² Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene, Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland. (Current address).
³ Department for Orthopaedic Surgery, Spine Unit, Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Abstract

Cutibacterium spp. have been frequently associated with foreign-body material infections. The vast majority of these infections occur via the exogenous route. Rarely, haematogenous infections occur, possibly seeding from pilosebaceous glands. A late spinal implant-associated infection is presented in this case report, and the possible sources of haematogenous seeding are discussed.

Publication types

Case Reports