… acnes access intervertebral discs and what the exact pathological mechanism it employs …
role that P. acnes plays inside nonpyogenic intervertebral discs is summarised in this paper. …

… with a high organism burden and the microscopic evidence of biofilms, we conclude that
at least a sub-set of herniated intervertebral discs truly become populated with P. acnes. …

… The relationship between intervertebral disc degeneration and chronic infection by
Propionibacterium acnes is controversial with contradictory evidence available in the literature. …

… In this study, nonpyogenic degenerated intervertebral discs were confirmed to have latent
P. acnes infections at a prevalence of 21.05% as indicated by anaerobic culture and 16S …

… Therefore, the objective of this study was to test if P. … The goal of this study was to use the
rat-tail model to investigate the disc and vertebral response to intradiscal P. acnes injection. …

… Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) in the intervertebral disc may result in low back pain.
The purpose of this study was to determine how P. …

… have shown the presence of P acnes and coagulase-negative staphylococci in situ on … P
acnes, might be associated with chronic low-grade infection in the lower intervertebral discs …

… Generally speaking, we favored that when the intervertebral discs are infected by P. acnes
they … represented as Modic changes and disc degeneration rather than the pyogenic discitis. …

… , with Propionibacterium acnes present in 84% of discs. … A total of 169 intervertebral discs
from 87 patients were evaluated (… noted in 76 of 169 discs (45%), with 34 discs positive for P. …

… Propionibacterium acnes may be considered a new pathogeny for disc degeneration, but its
pathological role has … This study was designed to determine whether the latent infection of P. …