CAPOOR, Manu, Filip RŮŽIČKA, Gurpreet SANDHU, Jess ROLLASON, Konstantinos MAVROMMATIS, externista FAHAD AHMED, Jonathan E. SCHMITZ, Assaf RAZ, Holger BRUGGEMANN, Peter A. LAMBERT, Vincent A. FISCHETTI and Ondřej SLABÝ. Importance of Propionibacterium acnes hemolytic activity in human intervertebral discs: A microbiological study. Plos one. San Francisco: Public Library of Science, 2018, vol. 13, No 11, p. 1-10. ISSN 1932-6203. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208144.
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Original name Importance of Propionibacterium acnes hemolytic activity in human intervertebral discs: A microbiological study
Authors CAPOOR, Manu (840 United States of America, belonging to the institution), Filip RŮŽIČKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Gurpreet SANDHU (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Jess ROLLASON (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Konstantinos MAVROMMATIS (840 United States of America), externista FAHAD AHMED (840 United States of America), Jonathan E. SCHMITZ (840 United States of America), Assaf RAZ (840 United States of America), Holger BRUGGEMANN (208 Denmark), Peter A. LAMBERT (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), 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, 2018, 1932-6203.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30204 Oncology
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 2.776
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14740/18:00105857
Organization unit Central European Institute of Technology
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208144
UT WoS 000451763800100
Keywords in English Propionibacterium acnes
Tags 14110113, podil, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Pavla Foltynová, Ph.D., učo 106624. Changed: 13/3/2019 11:21.
Abstract
Most patients with chronic lower back pain (CLBP) exhibit degenerative disc disease. Disc specimens obtained during initial therapeutic discectomies are often infected/colonized with Propionibacterium acnes, a Gram-positive commensal of the human skin. Although pain associated with infection is typically ascribed to the body's inflammatory response, the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus was recently observed to directly activate nociceptors by secreting pore-forming alpha-hemolysins that disrupt neuronal cell membranes. The hemolytic activity of P. acnes in cultured disc specimens obtained during routine therapeutic discectomies was assessed through incubation on sheep-blood agar. The beta-hemolysis pattern displayed by P. acnes on sheep-blood agar was variable and phylogroup-dependent. Their molecular phylogroups were correlated with their hemolytic patterns. Our findings raise the possibility that pore-forming proteins contribute to the pathogenesis and/or symptomology of chronic P. acnes disc infections and CLBP, at least in a subset of cases.
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