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Aim To investigate how risk factors and reduced spinal mobility contribute to spinal infections arising from methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia, known for increased mortality and diagnostic difficulties, especially in patients with septic shock or coma. Methods This retrospective study divided MSSA bacteremia patients into three groups: spinal infections (Group A, n = 14), non-spinal/implant infections (Group B, n = 24), and implant-related infections (Group C, n = 21). Analyses focused on demographics, medical history, laboratory inflammatory markers at antibiotic initiation, and spinal pathologies detected by CT. All results of the statistical analyses were significant at P |
