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Antibiotic pretreatment and culture yield in pediatric osteoarticular infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Mohamad Shieb, Caroline Decesare, Guyu Li, Ristagno Elizabeth

Whether early antibiotic administration compromises microbiological tissue culture yield in children with suspected osteoarticular infection remains a common clinical concern, yet the underlying evidence has never been pooled. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify the association between antibiotic pretreatment and tissue culture yield in pediatric osteomyelitis and septic arthritis. MEDLINE (PubMed) and Embase (Ovid) were searched from...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3345/cep.2026.01634 [Accepted]

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