Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of bone marrow that begins as a bacterial infection and can cause significant bone damage. The condition tends to progress to an area surrounding the bone known as the ...

Background: Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is the most severe form of chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis. In children and adolescents, chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis ...

INDIVIDUAL case reports 1–12 of salmonella osteomyelitis in patients with sickle-cell anemia have appeared in the literature since 1925. In 1951 Hodges and Holt 13 cited 5 cases of Salmonella ...

A team of researchers led by RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), have developed a new treatment for the particularly difficult-to-treat bone infection, osteomyelitis. Funded by Irish Research ...

Our study, involving 61 immunocompentent patients with primary vertebral osteomyelitis, illustrates that switching to an oral antibiotic regimen after 2 weeks of intravenous therapy may be safe, ...

Researchers have identified several factors that should help improve the diagnosis of chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO), also known as chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO). This ...

Osteomyelitis is a microbial infection of the bone. Pediatric osteomyelitis is common and has increased with time. The average incidence of acute osteomyelitis is eight to 10 per 100,000 children in ...