Levy Pierre Yves, Fenollar Florence, Stein Andreas, Borrione Frederic, Cohen Emile, Lebail Bernhard, Raoult Didier
Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Jun 15;46(12):1884-6. doi: 10.1086/588477.
The purpose of this study, which involved 276 patients, was to report the importance of Propionibacterium acnes in shoulder infections. The proportion of patients with shoulder infection who had infection due to P. acnes was significantly greater than the proportion of patients with lower limb infection who had infection due to P. acnes (9 of 16 patients vs. 1 of 233 patients; P < .001). This bacterium requires a prolonged incubation period and should not be considered to be a contaminant.
这项涉及276名患者的研究目的是报告痤疮丙酸杆菌在肩部感染中的重要性。肩部感染患者中由痤疮丙酸杆菌引起感染的比例显著高于下肢感染患者中由痤疮丙酸杆菌引起感染的比例(16名患者中有9名,而233名患者中有1名;P < 0.001)。这种细菌需要较长的潜伏期,不应被视为污染物。