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With the development of evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of patients with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis, various nonsurgical and surgical treatment strategies have achieved favorable results.

However, sufficient administration of appropriate antibiotics is a prerequisite for treatment success, which cannot be guaranteed in patients with culture-negative pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis.

Unfortunately, previous studies on culture-negative pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis were limited by small patient groups, short follow-up periods, varied treatment protocols, and inconsistently defined clinical endpoints.

Among patients treated according to our center’s treatment protocol for culture-negative pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis, which included patients treated without surgery, with surgery but without spinal instrumentation, as well as patients treated with instrumented surgery, (1) what proportion of patients in each treatment group experienced recurrence (or persistence) of infection, complications of treatment, and death; and (2) what factors were independently associated with recurrent or persistent infection after treatment under this algorithm?