CAPOOR, Manu N., Filip RŮŽIČKA, Táňa MACHÁČKOVÁ, Radim JANČÁLEK, Martin SMRČKA, Jonathan E. SCHMITZ, Markéta HERMANOVÁ, Jiří ŠÁNA, Elleni PONECHAL MICHU, John C. BAIRD, Fahad S. AHMED, Karel MÁCA, Radim LIPINA, Todd F. ALAMIN, Michael F. COSCIA, Jerry L. STONEMETZ, Timothy WITHAM, Garth D. EHRLICH, Ziya L. GOKASLAN, Konstantinos MAVROMMATIS, Christof BIRKENMAIER, Vincent A. FISCHETTI and Ondřej SLABÝ. Prevalence of Propionibacterium acnes in Intervertebral Discs of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study. Plos one. San Francisco: Public Library of Science, 2016, vol. 11, No 8, p. 1-12. ISSN 1932-6203. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161676.
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Original name Prevalence of Propionibacterium acnes in Intervertebral Discs of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study
Authors CAPOOR, Manu N. (840 United States of America), Filip RŮŽIČKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Táňa MACHÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Radim JANČÁLEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martin SMRČKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jonathan E. SCHMITZ (840 United States of America), Markéta HERMANOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jiří ŠÁNA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Elleni PONECHAL MICHU (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), John C. BAIRD (203 Czech Republic), Fahad S. AHMED (203 Czech Republic), Karel MÁCA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Radim LIPINA (203 Czech Republic), Todd F. ALAMIN (840 United States of America), Michael F. COSCIA (840 United States of America), Jerry L. STONEMETZ (840 United States of America), Timothy WITHAM (840 United States of America), Garth D. EHRLICH (840 United States of America), Ziya L. GOKASLAN (840 United States of America), Konstantinos MAVROMMATIS (840 United States of America), Christof BIRKENMAIER (276 Germany), Vincent A. FISCHETTI (840 United States of America) and Ondřej SLABÝ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Plos one, San Francisco, Public Library of Science, 2016, 1932-6203.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30200 3.2 Clinical medicine
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 2.806
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14110/16:00091845
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161676
UT WoS 000381577000130
Keywords in English BACTERIAL-INFECTION; BIOFILM FORMATION; SKIN; ASSOCIATION; CONTAMINATION; DEGENERATION; SARCOIDOSIS; SCIATICA; SURGERY; SAMPLES
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Background The relationship between intervertebral disc degeneration and chronic infection by Propionibacterium acnes is controversial with contradictory evidence available in the literature. Previous studies investigating these relationships were under-powered and fraught with methodical differences; moreover, they have not taken into consideration P. acnes' ability to form biofilms or attempted to quantitate the bioburden with regard to determining bacterial counts/genome equivalents as criteria to differentiate true infection from contamination. The aim of this prospective cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of P. acnes in patients undergoing lumbar disc microdiscectomy. Methods and Findings The sample consisted of 290 adult patients undergoing lumbar microdiscectomy for symptomatic lumbar disc herniation. An intraoperative biopsy and pre-operative clinical data were taken in all cases. One biopsy fragment was homogenized and used for quantitative anaerobic culture and a second was frozen and used for real-time PCR-based quantification of P. acnes genomes. P. acnes was identified in 115 cases (40%), coagulase-negative staphylococci in 31 cases (11%) and alpha-hemolytic streptococci in 8 cases (3%). P. acnes counts ranged from 100 to 9000 CFU/ml with a median of 400 CFU/ml. The prevalence of intervertebral discs with abundant P. acnes (>= 1x10(3) CFU/ml) was 11% (39 cases). There was significant correlation between the bacterial counts obtained by culture and the number of P. acnes genomes detected by real-time PCR (r = 0.4363, p<0.0001). Conclusions In a large series of patients, the prevalence of discs with abundant P. acnes was 11%. We believe, disc tissue homogenization releases P. acnes from the biofilm so that they can then potentially be cultured, reducing the rate of false-negative cultures. Further, quantification study revealing significant bioburden based on both culture and real-time PCR minimize the likelihood that observed findings are due to contamination and supports the hypothesis P. acnes acts as a pathogen in these cases of degenerative disc disease.
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