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Table 4 Comparison of antibiotic treatment between the CN and CP groups

From: Antimicrobial therapy and assessing therapeutic response in culture-negative pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis: a retrospective comparative study with culture-positive pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis

 

CN group (n = 41)

CP group (n = 32)

p value #

Total (n = 73)

Use of antibiotics before tissue-culture

32/41(78.0%)

20/32 (62.5%)

0.194

52/73 (71.2%)

Duration of antibiotic treatment (days)

 Total [parenteral + oral]

101.17 ± 52.84 (31-209)

84.19 ± 50.29 (25-198)

0.168

93.73 ± 52.08 (25-209)

 Parenteral

45.88 ± 16.14 (17-95)

57.31 ± 24.39 (25-144)

0.019

50.89 ± 20.82 (17-144)

 Oral

55.29 ± 47.40 (0-166)

26.84 ± 41.10 (0-126)

0.009

42.82 ± 46.66 (0-166)

Incidence of using oral antibiotics

31/41(75.6%)

14/32, (43.8%)

0.001

45/73 (61.6%)

  1. Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation or frequency, CN culture negative, CP culture positive, # p value between group CN and CP, p values of < 0.05 were considered statistically significant