Chronic Multifocal Symmetrical Osteomyelitis

Abstract

Abstract The principle that an infection is the result of an interaction between an infecting agent and a host is often overlooked in the urgent clinical setting where the focus is to determine the agent and select the correct anti-agent drug. In the current literature available to clinicians who care for patients with infections, there is generally excellent information on the infecting agents, on the specific anti-agent drugs, and on the protocol for treatment of "an infection."...