Abstract
Osteomyelitis is a progressive infection of bone that results in inflammatory destruction of
the bone. The aim of this study was to detemine etiological agents of osteomylitis and management
of it in Iraqi Patients admitted in an Iranian Hospital. This study carried out by
Doctors without Borders (MSF group) in Imam Hussein Hospital of Mehran with cooperation
of Milad Hospital. Surgical debridement, bone graft, fixation and antibiotic therapy were the
major management programe and. The most prevalent organisms isolated from patients
included Staphylococcus aureus, E.coli and Klebseilla pneumonia. The majority of these
microorganisms were resistant to third generation of cephalosporins. Colistin was the sole
antibiotic which most of gram-negative rods were susceptible to it. Nearly 34 % isolates of
S.aureus were resistant to methicillin .All isolates of S.aureus were susceptible to vancomycin.
Full Text
Full text is available in PDF
Copyright
© 2010, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.