Clinical and diagnostic features of osteomyelitis occurring in the first three months of life

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 1047-1053

  Wong, Melanie ^a   Isaacs, David ^a   Howman Giles, Robert ^a   Uren, Roger ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone scan; Gallium scan; Infant; Neonatal; Osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BONE AND BONES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE;

EID: 0029589188     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199512000-00004     Document Type: Article

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