Orthopedic Infections: Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Treatment
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 187
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Orthopedic infections remain challenging to treat and sometimes difficult to diagnose. Their management requires a multidisciplinary approach. They include post-surgical osteomyelitis, prosthetic joint infections, and various infections, such as septic arthritis after ligament reconstructions. This Special Issue will focus on these infections and describe the epidemiology, including infection rates, risk factors, and microbiology. Then, we will discuss antimicrobial treatment, focusing on probabilistic treatment options, therapy of documented infections, when to use anti-biofilm antibiotics, particularly rifampicin, when to use a combination of antibiotics, the total duration of treatment and duration of IV (if needed) treatment, the place of local antimicrobial agents and new systemic antibiotics.
Dr. Éric Bonnet
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chronic osteomyelitis
- prosthetic joint infections
- epidemiology
- microbiology
- antimicrobial treatment
- treatment duration
- local antibiotics
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Local Antimicrobial Therapy with Combined Gentamicin and Vancomycin compared to Gentamicin Monotherapy in the Management of Bone Infection
Martin McNally
