Colonization of intervertebral discs by Cutibacterium acnes in patients with low back pain: Protocol for an analytical study with microbiological, phenotypic, genotypic, and multiomic techniques.

Colonization of intervertebral discs by Cutibacterium acnes in patients with low back pain: Protocol for an analytical study with microbiological, phenotypic, genotypic, and multiomic techniques.

Lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) and low back pain (LBP) are two conditions that are closely related. Several studies have shown Cutibacterium acnes colonization of degenerated discs, but whether and how these finding correlates with LBP is unknown. A prospective study was planned to identify molecule...

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Main Authors: Vinícius Magno da Rocha, Carla Ormundo Gonçalves Ximenes Lima, Eliane de Oliveira Ferreira, Gabriel Corrêa de Farias, Fábio César Sousa Nogueira, Luis Caetano Martha Antunes, Keila Mara Cassiano, Rossano Kepler Alvim Fiorelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271773

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271773

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