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CASE REPORT article

Front. Surg.
Sec. Orthopedic Surgery
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2024.1382564

Case report: Osteosynthesis-associated infection with Ochrobactrum intermedium after acetabular fracture

Provisionally accepted
David R. Krueger David R. Krueger 1*Karl-Dieter Heller Karl-Dieter Heller 1Andrej Trampuz Andrej Trampuz 2Stefan Weenders Stefan Weenders 1
  • 1 Herzogin Elisabeth Hospital, Braunschweig, Germany
  • 2 Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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    Ochrobactrum intermedium (O. intermedium) is a gram-negative, non-fermenting bacterium closely related to Brucella genus. O. intermedium resembles an emergent human pathogen that has rarely been detected in both immunocompetent and immunodeficient patients. A musculoskeletal infection with O. intermedium has not been described in the literature. We present the first case of an osteosynthesis-associated infection (OAI) with O. intermedium in an 80-year-old female patient after osteosynthesis of an acetabular fracture. The patient was admitted to the emergency department 6 months after osteosynthesis of a posterior column acetabular fracture treated via open reduction and internal plate fixation of the posterior column. The patient demonstrated tenderness, redness and swelling at the insertion site as well as a fistula. The radiological controls showed femoral head necrosis and partial

    Keywords: Ochrobactrum, Ochrobactrum intermedium, Osteosynthesis-associated infection, Acetabular fracture, hip arthroplasty

    Received: 05 Feb 2024; Accepted: 07 Oct 2024.

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    * Correspondence: David R. Krueger, Herzogin Elisabeth Hospital, Braunschweig, Germany

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