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Patients with sickle cell disease are more susceptible to osteomyelitis and septic arthritis than the population at large. Seventy eight patients with these conditions were admitted to our hospital from April 1988 to March 1991. Thirty had sickle cell disease, 14 had the sickle cell trait and 34 had normal electrophoresis. The tibia, followed by the femur and humerus were the bones most commonly affected, and the knee was the joint most often involved. Salmonella was the commonest organism in osteomyelitis and septic arthritis in sickle cell disease, whereas staphylococcus was commonest in normal patients and those with the sickle cell trait. Antibiotics that cover these two organisms must be considered in patients with sickle cell disease who are suspected of having osteomyelitis or septic arthritis.
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