When blood vessels are damaged or blocked, your body has trouble distributing the infection-fighting cells needed to keep a small infection from growing larger. Implanted orthopedic hardware is a risk factor for infection.
Surgery to repair broken bones or replace worn joints also can accidentally open a path for germs to enter a bone. A deep puncture wound, such as an animal bite or a nail piercing through a shoe, can also provide a pathway for infection. Other factors that can make your bones more vulnerable to osteomyelitis may include: Recent injury or orthopedic surgeryĪ severe bone fracture or a deep puncture wound gives bacteria a route to enter your bone or nearby tissue. Your bones are normally resistant to infection, but this protection lessens as you get older. Direct contamination with germs can occur during surgeries to replace joints or repair fractures. Germs can also enter the body if you have broken a bone so severely that part of it is sticking out through your skin. If such an injury becomes infected, the germs can spread into a nearby bone. Severe puncture wounds can carry germs deep inside your body. Germs in other parts of your body - for example, in the lungs from pneumonia or in the bladder from a urinary tract infection - can travel through your bloodstream to a weakened spot in a bone. Germs can enter a bone in a variety of ways, including: Now she’s going to do a lot of bad deeds to get it all back.Most cases of osteomyelitis are caused by staphylococcus bacteria, types of germs commonly found on the skin or in the nose of even healthy individuals. Nita did a good deed, and it cost her everything. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” But when her mom brings home a live specimen, Nita decides she wants out - dissecting living people is a step too far.īut when she tries to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold on the black market in his place - because Nita herself isn’t exactly “human.” Now Nita is on the other side of the bars, and there is no line she won’t cross to escape and make sure no one can ever sell her again. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet-her mother does that. Sarah Holland, NYT bestselling author of Everlessĭexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who dissects monsters and sells their body parts on the black market - until she’s betrayed. “Twisty, grisly, genre-bending and immersive, Not Even Bones will grab you by the throat and drag you along as it gleefully tramples all of your expectations.”
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