Response to: 'Less antibiotics but no inferior effect for bacterial arthritis' by Zhang et al

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Ilker Uçkay et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;79(11):e145.

doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-215909. Epub 2019 Jul 5.

No abstract available

Keywords: arthritis; infections; orthopedic surgery.

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Competing interests: None declared.

Two weeks versus four weeks of antibiotic therapy after surgical drainage for native joint bacterial arthritis: a prospective, randomised, non-inferiority trial.
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Less antibiotics but no inferior effect for bacterial arthritis.
Tian J, Cheng C, Zhang F. Tian J, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020 Nov;79(11):e144. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-215682. Epub 2019 Jul 5. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020. PMID: 31278137 No abstract available.