Pathogens
Cutibacterium (Propionibacterium) acnes

Cutibacterium (Propionibacterium) acnes

Precautions

Standard Precautions

Susceptibilities

General Information

  • Vancomycin

  • Doxycycline

  • Ceftriaxone

Anaerobic slow-growing gram positive bacillus.

  • Skin commensal, associated with acne
  • CNS shunt infections, brain abscess
  • Prosthetic joint infections
  • Hardware/foreign body infections:
    • Prosthetic joint infections
    • Prosthetic valve endocarditis
    • Infection of pacemaker/ICD
    • CNS device (i.e. VP shunt) - nosocomial meningitis