Campylobacter spondylodiscitis and deficiency of cellular immunity.
We describe a case of spondylodiscitis caused by Campylobacter fetus in a previously healthy patient. This is the first report of this agent causing discovertebral infection, which generated cellular immune deficiency, reversible with the cure.
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Department of Rheumatology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétriére, Paris, France.
Koeger
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Rozenberg
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Bourgeois
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D000328:Adult; D002169:Campylobacter Infections; D002168:Campylobacter fetus; D015299:Discitis / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007154:Immune System Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed