2015 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adults

Antibiotic treatment for 6 weeks versus 12 weeks in patients with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis: an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised, controlled trial

(2015) Louis Bernard et al.   LANCET

Long-Term Outcome of Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis: A Cohort Study of 260 Patients

(2014) A. Gupta et al.   Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Evaluation of an enzyme-linked immunospot assay for the immunodiagnosis of atypical spinal tuberculosis (atypical clinical presentation/atypical radiographic presentation) in China

(2013) Kai Yuan et al.   Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Microbiologically and Clinically Diagnosed Vertebral Osteomyelitis: Impact of Prior Antibiotic Exposure

(2012) Chung-Jong Kim et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

A High Percentage of Serum Samples That Test Reactive by Enzyme Immunoassay for Anti-Brucella Antibodies Are Not Confirmed by the Standard Tube Agglutination Test

(2012) Matthew J. Binnicker et al.   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Failure modes in conservative and surgical management of infectious spondylodiscitis

(2012) Kestutis Valancius et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

The Impact of Prebiopsy Antibiotics on Pathogen Recovery in Hematogenous Vertebral Osteomyelitis

(2011) J. Marschall et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Adults and Children: Executive Summary

(2011) Catherine Liu et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Spondylodiscitis in hemodialysis patients: a case series

(2011) B. Faria et al.   CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY

Percutaneous needle biopsy in diagnosis and identification of causative organisms in cases of suspected vertebral osteomyelitis

(2011) Jennifer K. Sehn et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY

Spondylodiscitis in patients under haemodyalisis

(2011) Ana Maria Cervan et al.   INTERNATIONAL ORTHOPAEDICS

Optimized Pathogen Detection with 30- Compared to 20-Milliliter Blood Culture Draws

(2011) R. Patel et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Brucella sp. vertebral osteomyelitis with intercurrent fatal Staphylococcus aureus toxigenic enteritis in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

(2011) Caroline E. C. Goertz et al.   JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION

Successful treatment of azole-resistant Candida spondylodiscitis with high-dose caspofungin monotherapy

(2011) Kelesidis Theodoros et al.   RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Vertebral osteomyelitis: eight years’ experience of 100 cases

(2011) Bilgul Mete et al.   RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Delayed diagnosis of vertebral osteomyelitis in a paraplegic patient

(2011) M-Y Hsiao et al.   SPINAL CORD

Candida lusitaniae discitis after discogram in an immunocompetent patient

(2011) Brian C. Werner et al.   Spine Journal

Cervical Spinal Brucellosis with Epidural Abscess Causing Neurologic Deficit with Negative Serologic Tests

(2011) Kyung-Jin Song et al.   World Neurosurgery

The epidemiology of hematogenous vertebral osteomyelitis: a cohort study in a tertiary care hospital

(2010) Kavita P Bhavan et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The MRI appearances of early vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis

(2010) J.A.T. Dunbar et al.   CLINICAL RADIOLOGY

Non-pyogenic infections of the spine

(2010) Ghassan S. Skaf et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Spondylodiscitis: update on diagnosis and management

(2010) T. Gouliouris et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Vertebral Osteomyelitis

(2010) Werner Zimmerli   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Bacteraemia and subsequent vertebral osteomyelitis: a retrospective review of 125 patients

(2010) T. W. Corrah et al.   QJM-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Brucellar spondylodiscitis: magnetic resonance imaging features with conventional sequences and diffusion-weighted imaging

(2010) O. Oztekin et al.   Radiologia Medica

18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose-PET for Patients With Suspected Spondylitis Showing Modic Change

(2010) Seiji Ohtori et al.   SPINE

A Comparative Study of Pyogenic and Tuberculous Spondylodiscitis

(2010) Chung-Jong Kim et al.   SPINE

Pyogenic spondylodiscitis: An overview

(2010) G.S. Skaf et al.   Journal of Infection and Public Health

Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines: Part 2 of 3. The GRADE approach to grading quality of evidence about diagnostic tests and strategies

(2009) J. L. Brożek et al.   ALLERGY

Identifying serious causes of back pain: Cancer, infection, fracture

(2009) K. SIEMIONOW et al.   CLEVELAND CLINIC JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Candidiasis: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2009) Peter G. Pappas et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis: identification of microorganism and laboratory markers used to predict clinical outcome

(2009) Sang Hoon Yoon et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Evaluation of conservative treatment of non specific spondylodiscitis

(2009) N. Bettini et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Utility of MRI in the follow-up of pyogenic spinal infection in children

(2009) Qiuyan Wang et al.   PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY

Successful treatment of Candida discitis with 5-flucytosine and fluconazole

(2009) Satish M. Rachapalli et al.   RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Long-term Functional Outcome in Pyogenic Spinal Infection

(2009) Brendan J. OʼDaly et al.   SPINE

Hematogenous Spinal Infection in Central Greece

(2009) Lazaros I. Sakkas et al.   SPINE

The prevention of discitis during discography

(2009) Shiv K. Sharma et al.   Spine Journal

Surgical approaches to metastatic spine disease

(2009) Krzysztof Siemionow et al.   Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

Treatment of Aspergillosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2008) Thomas J. Walsh et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Blastomycosis: 2008 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2008) Stanley W. Chapman et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Identifying Pathogens of Spondylodiscitis: Percutaneous Endoscopy or CT-guided Biopsy

(2008) Shih-Chieh Yang et al.   CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH

CT-guided fine-needle aspiration in vertebral osteomyelitis: true usefulness of a common practice

(2008) Enrique Marco de Lucas et al.   CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY

Treatment of pyogenic (non-tuberculous) spondylodiscitis with tailored high-dose levofloxacin plus rifampicin

(2008) Pierluigi Viale et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Outcomes of treatment for hematogenous Staphylococcus aureus vertebral osteomyelitis in the MRSA ERA

(2008) Daniel J. Livorsi et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Broad-range PCR as a supplement to culture for detection of bacterial pathogens in patients with a clinically diagnosed spinal infection

(2008) Kurt Fuursted et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis: A Systematic Review of Clinical Characteristics

(2008) E. Mylona et al.   SEMINARS IN ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM

Going from evidence to recommendations

(2008) Gordon H Guyatt et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

(2008) Gordon H Guyatt et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Clinical Findings, Therapeutic Approach, and Outcome of Brucellar Vertebral Osteomyelitis

(2007) J. D. Colmenero et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical and MRI findings of brucellar spondylodiscitis

(2007) Zulkif Bozgeyik et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY

Long-Term Clinical and Radiological Magnetic Resonance Imaging Outcome of Abscess-Associated Spontaneous Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis Under Conservative Management

(2007) Gorane Euba et al.   SEMINARS IN ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM