Characteristics of spontaneous coagulase-negative staphylococcal spondylodiscitis: a retrospective comparative study versus Staphylococcus aureus spondylodiscitis.

Julien LopezZuzana TatarAnne TournadreMarion CoudercBruno PereiraMartin SoubrierJean Jacques Dubost

Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2017)

CoNS-spondylodiscitis involved at least 10% of spontaneous spondylodiscitis cases and was more common in elderly patients, afflicted by comorbidities, and its presentation was less virulent than that of those with SA-spondylodiscitis.

Keyphrases

staphylococcus aureus
methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
escherichia coli
cystic fibrosis
candida albicans
disease virus