Musculoskeletal infection, microbial adhesion, and antibiotic resistance

Gristina, A.G.; Naylor, P.T.; Myrvik, Q.N.

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America 4(3): 391-408

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0891-5520
PMID: 2212596
Document Number: 348990
Osteomyelitis and intra-articular infection are septic diseases that present pathogenic features characteristic of molecular mechanisms involving adhesion to substrata. In this review, mechanisms of microbial adhesion to bone and cartilage as substrata are presented and related to host tissue response and to antibiotic treatment.

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