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ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2019

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

Guoqing Tang, Yong Chen, Ji Chen, Zhuo Wang, Weimin Jiang

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Article in Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Guoqing TangOrthopedic Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215000, P.R. China.
Yong ChenOrthopedic Center, Kunshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215300, P.R. China.
Ji ChenOrthopedic Center, Kunshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215300, P.R. China.
Zhuo WangOrthopedic Center, Kunshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215300, P.R. China.
Weimin JiangOrthopedic Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215000, P.R. China.
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNSoochow University · CNTraditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Kunshan · CN

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6 · The paper itself

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 suspiciously contaminated. Follwoing the exclusion of the 6 suspicious samples, 31 samples were

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coagulase-negative Staphylococcidisc herniationlow-virulence anaerobic bacteriaPropionibacterium acnesyoung patient

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