New Strategies for Bone Infection Management

Bone infection associated with open fractures and internal fixation implants in human patients is the focus of multidisciplinary research initiatives by the AO Foundation, due to the serious morbidity of this complication.[1] An early study published in 1980 reported an incidence of osteomyelitis in canine fractures of approximately 31%.[2] However, apart from the complication of bone infection after elective tibial osteotomy for cranial cruciate disease, there is a shortage of more contemporary studies about fracture-related infections in veterinary patients.[3]