Increasing antimicrobial resistance is not inevitable: in reply to microbiological and antibiotic profile of osteomyelitis tertiary care hospital

Authors

  • Ruth A. Corrigan Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospital, Windmill Road, Oxford, UK Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford, UK
  • Maria Dudareva Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospital, Windmill Road, Oxford, UK
  • Martin McNally Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospital, Windmill Road, Oxford, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20212304

Keywords:

Antimicrobial resistance, Antimicrobial susceptibility, Pathogens

Abstract

It was with interest and alarm that we read the report by Vijakumar et al regarding antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of pathogens isolated from patients with chronic osteomyelitis.1 The authors reviewed 132 isolates from 100 patients managed in Davangere, Karnataka, South West India between January 2017-December 2019.

References

Vijayakumar AB, Reddy YP, Suphala B, Gopalakrishnan A, Vinod Kumar CS. Microbiological and antibiotic profile of osteomyelitis in tertiary care hospital. Int Surg J. 2021;8(3):910-14.

Sheehy SH, Atkins BA, Bejon P, Byren I, Wyllie D, Athanasou NA et al. The microbiology of chronic osteomyelitis: prevalence of resistance to common empirical anti-microbial regimens. J Infect. 2010;60(5):338-43.

Dudareva M, Hotchen AJ, Ferguson J, Hodgson S, Scarborough M, Atkins BL, McNally MA. The microbiology of osteomyelitis: changes over ten years. J Infection. 2019;79: 189-98.

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Published

2021-05-28

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Letter to the Editor