Prevalence of Propionibacterium acnes in Intervertebral Discs of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study
Fig 1
Results of anaerobic culture and detection of P. acnes genome counts in disc tissue samples.
Prevalence rate of the bacteria isolated from disc tissue samples (A), stratification of the samples accordingly to bacterial counts reached by culture (B) and differences in the bacteria genome counts detected by real-time PCR in group of patients with abundant P. acnes by culture, non-abundant P. acnes and culture-negative cases (C).