Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

Klebsiella Osteomyelitis Of The Right Humerus Involving The Right Shoulder Joint In An Infant, Maqbool Qadir, Syed Rehan Ali, Mumtaz Lakhani, Pervaiz Hashmi, Ahsen Amirali

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Osteomyelitis in newborn infants is a rare infection. Lower extremity joints are commonly affected. Most of the cases have a haematogenous spread. Aerobes are the common group of organism involved, of which Staphylococcus aureus is the commonest. Klebsiella osteomyelitis has been reported as a cause of Osteomyelitis. However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of Klebsiella pneumoniae associated osteomyelitis in an infant from Pakistan.