Hot topics in the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections

Silvano Esposito; Matteo Bassetti; Eric Bonnet; Emilio Bouza; Monica Chan; Giuseppe De Simone; Matthew Dryden; Ian Gould; David Chien Lye; Kordo Saeed; John Segreti; Serhat Unal; Ata Nevzat Yalcin; International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC)

doi:10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.04.011

Hot topics in the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2016 Jul;48(1):19-26. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.04.011. Epub 2016 May 12.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. Electronic address: silvanoesposito@libero.it.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Santa Maria Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Joseph Ducuing, Toulouse, France.
⁴ Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
⁷ Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Winchester, UK; Southampton University School of Medicine, Southampton, UK; Rare and Imported Pathogens Department, Public Health England, UK.
⁸ Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK.
⁹ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
¹⁰ Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, UK; Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Basingstoke, UK; University of Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK.
¹¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹² Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
¹³ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.

PMID: 27216380
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.04.011

Abstract

Eighteen hot topics regarding the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs) were selected and reviewed by members of the SSTI Working Group of the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC). Despite the large amount of literature available on the issue selected, there are still many unknowns with regard to many of them and further studies are required to answer these challenging issues that face clinicians on a daily basis.

Keywords: Diagnosis; Management; Skin and soft-tissue infection.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Disease Management
Humans
Skin Diseases, Bacterial / diagnosis*
Skin Diseases, Bacterial / drug therapy*
Soft Tissue Infections / diagnosis*
Soft Tissue Infections / drug therapy*