DOI: 10.36106/ijsr/4802576 ISSN:
A STUDY ON CULTURE AND ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY PATTERN IN CHILDREN WITH ACUTE OSTEOMYELITIS.
Adnan Nazir Shahdhar, Ambreen Ashraf Lone, Suhail Bashir, Raja Babar Bashir Rather- General Medicine
- Applied Mathematics
- General Mathematics
- General Medicine
- General Chemistry
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Microbiology
- Immunology
- General Medicine
- General Medicine
- Pharmacology (medical)
- General Medicine
Osteomyelitis is strictly dened as any form of inammation involving bone and/or bone marrow, but it is almost exclusively the result of infection.In children, osteomyelitis is primarily hematogenous in origin and acute in nature1. Acute osteomyelitis is dened as an infection diagnosed within 2 weeks of the onset of symptoms2.The principal cause of osteomyelitis in children is Staphylococcus aureus, and both the epidemiology and pathogenesis of S. aureus infections, including osteomyelitis, have changed in recent years owing to the emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus. It complicates antibiotic selection, and if not managed adequately, it results in amputation, sepsis, or death3.