Diagnostics and Antibiotic Therapy in Orthopedic Infections
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotic Therapy in Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 198
Special Issue Editors
2. Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency Program, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Interests: phage therapy; racture-related infections; prosthetic joint infections
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Infections following orthopedic surgery remain as some of the most clinically challenging complications to manage. Orthopedic infection treatment requires multidisciplinary teams and is associated with high costs, prolonged courses of antibiotic therapy, and often multiple surgical interventions. Despite these efforts, infection eradication rates remain sub-optimal, and treatment is associated with poor clinical and patient-reported outcomes. Hardware associated infections, such as fracture-related infections and prosthetic joint infections, remain particularly difficult to manage due to the formation of intransigent bacterial biofilms, and major innovations in both surgical care and antibiotic therapy are desperately needed to improve patient outcomes and reduce treatment morbidity.
For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of manuscripts that will advance our understanding of current diagnostics and therapeutics relevant to the management of orthopedic infections. Submissions from researchers across all relevant clinical and scientific disciplines are welcome. Submissions describing novel diagnostic modalities or those that inform antibiotic management in current clinical practice are especially encouraged.
Thank you in advance for your consideration. We look forward to sharing your research findings in this upcoming Issue.
Dr. Jason Young
Dr. Mengnai Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prosthetic joint infection
- fracture-related infection
- septic arthritis
- osteomyelitis diagnostics
- antibiotic therapy
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