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Do you use oral beta-lactams to treat osteomyelitis?   

There is ample data and experience showing the efficacy of oral  fluoroquinolones, TMP-SMX, tetracyclines, clindamycin for osteomyelitis.  But there is comparatively little published with oral amoxicillin-clavulanate, amoxicillin, cephalexin or cefadroxil, other than being used for chronic suppression.  Can these beta-lactams be reliably used to CURE osteomyelitis?