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Bacteroides Fragilis Vertebral Osteomyelitis and Discitis: "Back" to Susceptibility Testing
John C Chin1, Tyler E Warkentien1, Brendan W Corey1
1is an Internal Medicine Physician; and are Infectious Disease Physicians; all at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia. and are Researchers in the Multidrug-Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Abstract:
Genetic testing of anaerobic isolates can be important for proper antimicrobial stewardship to identify the appropriate narrow-spectrum treatment for a polymicrobial infection.

