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ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2026

How Should Bacteriological Sampling Be Stratified in Paediatric Septic Arthritis? A Narrative Review with a Proposed Risk-Stratified Framework.

Pablo Rodriguez, Maxime Schilliger, Ahmer Khan, Giacomo De Marco, Oscar Vazquez, Andreas Tsoupras, Ardian Ramadani, Christina Steiger, Romain Dayer, Dimitri Ceroni

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Review in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Pablo RodriguezOrthopaedics and Traumatology Unit, Surgery Department, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Maxime SchilligerOrthopaedics and Traumatology Unit, Surgery Department, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Ahmer KhanOrthopaedics and Traumatology Unit, Surgery Department, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Giacomo De MarcoPaediatric Orthopaedics Unit, Service of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Women, Children and Adolescents, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Oscar VazquezPaediatric Orthopaedics Unit, Service of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Women, Children and Adolescents, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1325-8575
Andreas TsouprasPaediatric Orthopaedics Unit, Service of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Women, Children and Adolescents, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Ardian RamadaniPaediatric Orthopaedics Unit, Service of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Women, Children and Adolescents, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0004-5894-2436
Christina SteigerPaediatric Orthopaedics Unit, Service of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Women, Children and Adolescents, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Romain DayerPaediatric Orthopaedics Unit, Service of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Women, Children and Adolescents, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Dimitri CeroniPaediatric Orthopaedics Unit, Service of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Women, Children and Adolescents, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Joint aspiration remains the gold standard and an urgent step in the diagnosis of paediatric septic arthritis (SA). Unlike in acute haematogenous osteomyelitis, it has both diagnostic and therapeutic value. No previous review has specifically addressed when bacteriological sampling is essential and when it may reasonably be omitted. The bacteriological profile in children is highly age-dependent:

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bacteriological samplingjoint aspirationKingella kingaeMRSAnarrative reviewpaediatricrisk stratificationseptic arthritisStaphylococcus aureustoxins

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PMID42650644
PMCPMC13509835

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