What would pediatric infectious disease consultants recommend for management of culture-negative acute hematogenous osteomyelitis?

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 805-809

  Afghani, Behnoosh ^a   Kong, Vivian ^a   Wu, Fu L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Osteomyelitis; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; NAFCILLIN; OXACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG CHOICE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOGENOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 34548712458     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO/0b013e3181558981     Document Type: Article

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