Spondylodiskitis and endocarditis due to Streptococcus gordonii

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Case Report

Marc V. Assous¹  Ziv Dadon²  Yael M. Szterenlicht³  Gabriel Munter³  Assaf Cohen³  Amos M. Yinnon⁴  David Raveh-Brawer⁵  Yair Barzilay⁶ 

[1]Clinical Microbiology and Immunology Laboratory, Shaare Zedek Medical Medicine, Affiliated with the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

[2]Department of Internal Medicine A, Shaare Zedek Medical Medicine, Affiliated with the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

[3]Department of Internal Medicine C, Shaare Zedek Medical Medicine, Affiliated with the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

[4]Division of Internal Medicine, Shaare Zedek Medical Medicine, Affiliated with the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, P.O. Box 3235, 91031, Jerusalem, Israel

[5]Infectious Disease Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Medicine, Affiliated with the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

[6]Spine Unit of the Department of Orthopedics, Shaare Zedek Medical Medicine, Affiliated with the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

关键词: Spondylodiskitis;    Endocarditis;    Streptococcus gordonii;    Duration of antibiotic treatment;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12941-017-0243-8

 received in 2017-07-02, accepted in 2017-09-26,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundStreptococcus gordonii is an infrequent cause of infective endocarditis (IE); associated spondylodiskitis has not yet been described in the literature.PurposeWe describe 2 patients who presented with new-onset, severe back pain; blood cultures revealed S. gordonii bacteremia, which led to the diagnosis of spondylodiskitis and IE. We review our 2-decade experience with S. gordonii bacteremia to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of these patients.ResultsIn our hospital over the last 20 years (1998–2017), a total of 15 patients with S. gordonii bacteremia were diagnosed, including 11 men and 4 women, and the mean age was 65 ± 22 (range 23–95). The most common diagnosis was IE (9 patients), spondylodiskitis (the presented 2 patients, who in addition were diagnosed with endocarditis), necrotizing fasciitis (1), sternitis (1), septic arthritis (1) and pneumonia (1). The 11 patients with IE were treated with penicillin ± gentamicin, or ceftriaxone for 6 weeks, 5 required valve surgery and 10/11 (91%) attained complete cure. The 2 patients with diskitis required 2–3 months of intravenous antibiotics to achieve complete cure.ConclusionSpondylodiskitis was the presenting symptom of 2/11 (18%) patients with S. gordonii endocarditis. Spondylodiskitis should probably be looked for in patients diagnosed with S. gordonii endocarditis and back pain as duration of antibiotic treatment to achieve complete cure may be considerably longer.

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