Surgical Debridement Is Superior to Sole Antibiotic Therapy in a Novel Murine Posttraumatic Osteomyelitis Model.

INTRODUCTION:Bone infections after trauma, i.e. posttraumatic osteomyelitis, pose one of the biggest problems of orthopedic surgery. Even after sufficient clinical therapy including vast debridement of infected bone and antibiotic treatment, regeneration of postinfectious bone seems to be restricted...

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Main Authors: Johannes Maximilian Wagner, Hannah Zöllner, Christoph Wallner, Britta Ismer, Jessica Schira, Stephanie Abraham, Kamran Harati, Marcus Lehnhardt, Björn Behr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4752466?pdf=render