Case Report: Diagnosis of Primary Klebsiella pneumoniae in Cervical Spine by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Spinal infection is a disease that affects the intervertebral disks or adjacent paravertebral tissue in the vertebral body. There are few reports of spinal infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae. Cervical spine infection by K. pneumoniae especially preoperative is extremely rare. Nowadays, metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has led to the accurate and timely diagnoses of numerous infectious diseases.

Case presentation

We described a case of a 64-year-old woman, with a chief complaint of neck, shoulder, and upper limb pain for 10 days. The patient had symptoms of abscess compression before surgery, and inflammatory indicators such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), and procalcitonin (PCT) were significa

SUBMITTER: Li T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8964782 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature