Pneumococcal Vertebral Osteomyelitis after Epidural Injection: A Rare Event.

J Glob Infect Dis

Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA; Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Michael's Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA.

Published: September 2016

Streptococcus pneumoniae vertebral infections have rarely been reported. Herein, we report a case of pneumococcal vertebral osteomyelitis with paraspinal and epidural abscesses as well as concomitant bacteremia following epidural injection. This will be the second case in the literature reporting pneumococcal vertebral osteomyelitis related to epidural manipulation.

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