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Bone Infection (Osteomyelitis) Learning Center
Causes could include:
- Bacteria
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Fungus
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Infection may also spread to a bone from infected skin, muscles, or tendons next to the bone, as in osteomyelitis that occurs under a chronic skin ulcer (sore). The infection that causes osteomyelitis can also start in another part of the body and...
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Staphylococcus aureus , a bacterium, is the most common organism involved in osteomyelitis. Other types of organisms include the mycobacterium which causes tuberculosis , a type of Salmonella bacteria in patients with sickle cell anemia, Pseudomon...
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Bacteria are prokaryotes (unicellular organisms with no membrane-enclosed nucleus) with simple structures that typically range in size from about 0.5 to 20 micrometers.
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