title: [Cervical spondylodiscitis inoculation revealed by abdominal infection].
abstract: We report a patient who presented successively peritonis concomitant bacteriema with Staphylococcus aureus then meningitis and finally a bone and joint infection. All the infections are associated with the same germ. This patient of 40 years suffers of diabet mellitus and has history of neck pain and cervical spondylosis. For this, he received corticosteroid injection locally one year before his hospitalization.
authors.affiliation: Service de microbiologie, Groupe hospitalier du Havre, France. franck.labbe@ch-havre.fr
authors.forename: Franck
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Labbé
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Frénoy
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bousta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000382:microbiology; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000382:microbiology*; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D015299:Discitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis; D019547:Neck Pain / Q000382:microbiology; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000382:microbiology; D016659:Psoas Abscess / Q000382:microbiology; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000382:microbiology; D012907:Smoking; D055009:Spondylosis / Q000382:microbiology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: Staphylococcus aureus; bone and joint infection; corticosteroid; corticostéroide; spondylodiscitis; vertebral osteomyelitis