Subacute osteomyelitis due to Staphylococcus caprae in a teenager:A case report and review of the literature

作     者：Oscar Vazquez Giacomo De Marco Nathaly Gavira Celine Habre Marcia Bartucz Christina N Steiger Romain Dayer Dimitri Ceroni 

作者机构：Paediatric Orthopaedics UnitGeneva Children’s HospitalGeneva University HospitalsGeneva 1211Switzerland Paediatric Radiology UnitGeneva Children’s HospitalGeneva University HospitalsGeneva 1211Switzerland 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Clinical Cases》 (世界临床病例杂志)

年 卷 期：2023年第11卷第20期

页      面：4897-4902页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100202[医学-儿科学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Subacute Osteomyelitis Staphylococcus caprae Teenagers Case report 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Staphylococcus caprae(***)is a human commensal bacterium which can be detected in the nose,nails,and *** can be responsible for heterogeneous infections such as bacteremia,endocarditis,pneumonia,acute otitis externa,peritonitis,and urinary tract *** and joint infections due to *** have also been reported,but most of them resulted from the infection of orthopedic devices,especially joint prostheses and internal osteosynthesis *** cases of primary osteoarticular infections caused by *** have been described,including osteitis,arthritis,or *** SUMMARY We report an unusual case of subacute osteomyelitis in a toe phalanx caused by *** in a 14.5-year-old *** Subacute *** osteomyelitis is a little-known and probably underestimated community-acquired infectious *** microorganism’s pathogenicity should be seen as more than a classic nosocomial orthopedic device infection.