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Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 28, No. 5, 229-230 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288902800506

Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Osteomyelitis and Suppurative Arthritis

Outpatient Therapy

Mark D. Perkins

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Children's Hospital of Vanderbilt

Kathryn M. Edwards

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Children's Hospital of Vanderbilt

Richard M. Heller

Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Vanderbilt

Neil E. Green

Department of Orthopedics, Vanderbilt Medical School, Children's Hospital of Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee

ORAL ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT of acute staphylococcal osteomyelitis in toddler and school-age children has proven a cost-effective and efficacious alternative to intravenous therapy. 1,2 Oral antibiotic regimens, however, have not been carefully studied in neonatal osteomyelitis. We recently treated an infant with oral antibiotics for multifocal group B streptococcal (GBS) osteomyelitis and suppurative arthritis and report our experience.


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