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Lemaire et al. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2010, 9:8 /content/9/1/8 CASE REPORT Open Access Spondylodiscitis and an aortic aneurysm due to Campylobacter coli 1* 1 2 3 4 Xavier Lemaire , Caroline Dehecq , Christian Cattoen , Laurence Destrieux Garnier , Béatrice Sarraz Bournet , 1 1 Yazdan Yazdanpanah , Eric Senneville Abstract Campylobacter coli is a rare cause of bacteremia. We report here the first case of C.coli spondylodiscitis complicated by an aortic aneurysm. Outcome was favourable with surgery and antibiotic therapy. Background (figure 1, 2). The patient was transferred to the Univer- While Campylobacter fetus is a rare but well-recognized sity Hospital of Lille to be operated on for insertion of cause of bacteremia [1-3], only a few cases of Campylo- endovascular prosthesis. He was then transferred to our bacter coli bacteremia have been reported in the litera- Infectious Disease Unit where antibiotic treatment for ture. To the best of our knowledge, no aortic aneurysm the aneurysm and spondylodiscitis was continued. due to C.coli has been previously described. We report In our unit, the patient remained afebrile without here the first case of C.coli spondylodiscitis complicated pain. Nevertheless, C-reactive protein continued to by an aortic aneurysm. markedly rise to 105 mg/L. Ciprofloxacin was added to cefotaxime, and gentamicin