Spontaneous pyogenic spondylitis caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae.
A 72-year-old woman without a history of spinal injury was admitted to our hospital with prolonged severe back pain and high fever. Clinical laboratory findings and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed severe inflammation of the L2 and L3 lumbar vertebrae. Meropenem trihydrate administration improved her symptoms. Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from the patient's blood indicated that the organism caused the spontaneous pyogenic spondylitis.
Kosai
Kosuke
K
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki.
Seki
Masafumi
M
Yanagihara
Katsunori
K
Imamura
Yoshifumi
Y
Nakamura
Shigeki
S
Kurihara
Shintaro
S
Izumikawa
Koichi
K
Kakeya
Hiroshi
H
Yamamoto
Yoshihiro
Y
Tashiro
Takayoshi
T
Kohno
Shigeru
S
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000382:microbiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013166:Spondylitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*