ArticleFrontiers in medicine2026
Lumbar postoperative
Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
Surgical site infection following lumbar internal fixation and fusion is predominantly bacterial. Aflatoxin-associated discitis is extremely rare in immunocompetent patients and often results in delayed diagnosis and inadequate empirical antimicrobial treatment. This report presents a 74-year-old immunocompetent male patient who underwent elective posterior lumbar interbody fusion for grade II degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis and developed intractable low back pain 3 months postoperatively. Despite multiple courses of broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy administered at two external hospitals, his symptoms did not resolve. Conventional bacterial, mycobacterial, and fungal cultures, as well as histopathological examination of percutaneous biopsy and intraoperative specimens, yielded negative microbial results. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) specifically identified
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