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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2006, p. 3835-3837, Vol. 44, No. 10
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00793-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Osteomyelitis of the Ulna Caused by Porphyromonas gingivalis

Heike Welkerling,1* Walter Geißdörfer,2 Thomas Aigner,3 and Raimund Forst1

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg,1 Institute for Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg,2 Department of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Rathsberger Strasse 57, 91054 Erlangen, Germany3

Received 13 April 2006/ Returned for modification 6 June 2006/ Accepted 11 July 2006

A 41-year-old man was provided with a jacket crown after a root end resection of a molar. Four months later, cortical destruction of the ulnar diaphysis with swelling and pain appeared in his forearm. No microorganism could be grown from an intraoperative tissue specimen, but bacterial 16S rRNA genes were detected by broad-range PCR, revealing Porphyromonas gingivalis as the causative agent of osteomyelitis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg Rathsberger Straße 57, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. Phone: 49 9131 8223919. Fax: 49 9131 85 23565. E-mail: heike.welkerling{at}ortho.med.uni-erlangen.de.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2006, p. 3835-3837, Vol. 44, No. 10
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00793-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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