Successful Treatment of Spondylodiscitis and Infectious Sacroiliitis due to Listeria monocytogenes using Meropenem as Salvage Therapy

Abeline Kapuczinski; Sammy Place; Olivier Filleul; Christine Villers

doi:10.12890/2022_003177

Successful Treatment of Spondylodiscitis and Infectious Sacroiliitis due to Listeria monocytogenes using Meropenem as Salvage Therapy

Eur J Case Rep Intern Med. 2022 Mar 11;9(3):003177. doi: 10.12890/2022_003177. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Abeline Kapuczinski^{1

2}, Sammy Place¹, Olivier Filleul¹, Christine Villers²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier EpiCURA, Hornu, Belgium.
² Department of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier EpiCURA, Hornu, Belgium.

Abstract

Infectious sacroiliitis is a rare disease that can occur in conjunction with other osteoarticular infections. Furthermore, it is very unusual for Listeria monocytogenes to be identified in an osteoarticular infection, with spondylodiscitis being the most frequent such infection. We report a case of spondylodiscitis with infectious sacroiliitis due to infection with L. monocytogenes treated successfully with meropenem as salvage therapy.

Learning points: It is very unusual for Listeria monocytogenes to be identified in an osteoarticular infection.L. monocytogenes can cause infectious sacroiliitis, which is a rare disease.Meropenem has been proposed as salvage therapy and was successful in our case.

Keywords: Listeria monocytogenes; Spondylodiscitis; osteoarticular infection; sacroiliitis.