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| Carvalho,Vladimir Cordeiro de; Oliveira,Priscila Rosalba Domingos de; Dal-Paz,Karine; Paula,Adriana Pereira de; Félix,Cássia da Silva; Lima,Ana Lúcia Lei Munhoz. |
| INTRODUCTION: Despite the growing interest in the study of Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) infections, very little information on osteomyelitis caused by GNB is available in the medical literature. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: To assess clinical and microbiological features of 101 cases of osteomyelitis caused by GNB alone, between January 2007 and January 2009, in a reference center for the treatment of high complexity traumas in the city of São Paulo. RESULTS: Most patients were men (63%), with median age of 42 years, affected by chronic osteomyelitis (43%) or acute osteomyelitis associated to open fractures (32%), the majority on the lower limbs (71%). The patients were treated with antibiotics as inpatients for 40 days (median) and for 99 days (median) in... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Osteomyelitis Fractures; Open Gram-negative bacterial infections Accidents; Traffic. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702012000100011 |
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