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Do you routinely use oral antibiotics for treatment of vertebral osteomyelitis?
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Infectious Disease · Christiana Care Health Syst
Speaking specifically to my clinical practice, it is very dependent on the individual patient--more or less if they can do the IV/OPAT situation, and what happened with surgery, and what organism; also, are they coming to you outpatient vs inpatient? IDSA guidelines (from 2015) still endorse IV. It ...