For years, spine surgeons have had a complicated relationship with Cutibacterium acnes — formerly known as Propionibacterium acnes, and forever known in the OR as “that culture contaminant nobody agrees about.”
Is it a harmless hitchhiker from the skin? A laboratory nuisance?
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