Bacteroides Fragilis Vertebral Osteomyelitis and Discitis: "Back" to Susceptibility Testing

John C Chin; Tyler E Warkentien; Brendan W Corey; Erik C Snesrud; Karl C Kronmann

Bacteroides Fragilis Vertebral Osteomyelitis and Discitis: "Back" to Susceptibility Testing

Fed Pract. 2020 May;37(5):242-246.

Authors

John C Chin¹, Tyler E Warkentien¹, Brendan W Corey¹, Erik C Snesrud¹, Karl C Kronmann¹

Affiliation

¹ is an Internal Medicine Physician; and are Infectious Disease Physicians; all at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia. and are Researchers in the Multidrug-Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

PMID: 32454579
PMCID: PMC7241607

Abstract

Genetic testing of anaerobic isolates can be important for proper antimicrobial stewardship to identify the appropriate narrow-spectrum treatment for a polymicrobial infection.