Table 1.
Geographic distribution of bacterial pathogens of osteomyelitis in patients with major sickling haemoglobinopathy
| Study | country / continent |
year of publication |
Patients | Salmonellae | S. aureus | Other GNB |
Other GPC |
Negative culture |
| Ebong & Oyemade10 | Nigeria | 1978 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Givner et al5 | USA | 1981 | 66 | 50 | 7 | 5 | 4 | |
| Okoroma et al11 | Nigeria | 1984 | 20 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 1 | |
| Sadat Ali et al12 | Saudi Arabia | 1985 | 20 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Ebong13 | Nigeria | 1986 | 32 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Syrogiannopoulos14 | Europe | 1986 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| Doppelt et al15 | Europe | 1990 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| Eps et al16 | USA | 1991 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Piehl et al17 | USA | 1993 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Aken'Ova et al18 | Nigeria | 1995 | 25 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 6 | |
| Burnett6 | Nigeria | 1998 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 1998 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nwadiaro et al3 | Nigeria | 2000 | 24 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 0 | |
| Chambers et al19 | USA | 2000 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Onuminya20 | Nigeria | 2003 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Present study | Nigeria | 17 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Total | 304 | 129 | 82 | 55 | 15 | 23 |