Higher proportion of low-virulence anaerobic bacterial infection in young patients with intervertebral disc herniation.

ABSTRACT: Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration caused by the latent infection of low-virulence anaerobic bacteria (LVAB) is a hot research topic. The present study analyzed and compared the positive rate of LVAB within IVDs of patients of different ages. IVD samples were intraoperatively retrieved from 176zpatients with disc herniation and subjected to microbiological culture. Subsequently, all the patients were classified into 3 groups based on their ages as follows: Group A (age <30 years), group B (age from 30 to 50 years) and group C (age >50 years) and the positive rates of LVAB were compared among the three groups. The severity of IVD degeneration was also assessed by measuring intervertebral height. Of the 176 cultured discs, 39 samples had bacterial growth, while 6 of them were suspiciousl

SUBMITTER: Tang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755454 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature