Hot topics in diabetic foot infection

Kordo Saeed; Silvano Esposito; Ayesha Akram; Tiziana Ascione; Abhijit M Bal; Matteo Bassetti; Alessia Carnelutti; Monica Chan; Joshua Davis; Matthew Dryden; Mohd Fadil Muhammad Farhan; Shelanah Fernando; Thomas Gottlieb; Ian Gould; Merve Yildiz; David Chien Lye; Pasquale Pagliano; Stephen Poole; Paul S Pottinger; Anna Maria Spera; Serhat Unal; Ata Nevzat Yalcin; International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

doi:10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105942

Hot topics in diabetic foot infection

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Jun;55(6):105942. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105942. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

Authors

Kordo Saeed¹, Silvano Esposito², Ayesha Akram³, Tiziana Ascione⁴, Abhijit M Bal⁵, Matteo Bassetti⁶, Alessia Carnelutti⁷, Monica Chan⁸, Joshua Davis⁹, Matthew Dryden¹⁰, Mohd Fadil Muhammad Farhan¹¹, Shelanah Fernando¹², Thomas Gottlieb¹², Ian Gould¹³, Merve Yildiz¹⁴, David Chien Lye¹⁵, Pasquale Pagliano⁴, Stephen Poole¹⁶, Paul S Pottinger¹⁷, Anna Maria Spera², Serhat Unal¹⁸, Ata Nevzat Yalcin¹⁴; International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Affiliations

¹ Southampton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Microbiology Innovation and Research Unit (MIRU), Microbiology Department, Southampton, UK; University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton, UK. Electronic address: kordosaeed@nhs.net.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Italy.
³ John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Australia.
⁴ AORN dei Colli, Dept of Infectious Diseases, Naples, Italy.
⁵ Department of Microbiology, University Hospital Cross House, NHS, Ayrshire & Arran, UK; Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK (Honorary Associate Professor).
⁶ Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Health Sciences and Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.
⁷ Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Medicine University of Udine and Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Udine, Udine, Italy.
⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
⁹ Menzies School of Health Research, John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Australia.
¹⁰ Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation trust, Winchester and Basingstoke, UK; Public Health England, Rare and Imported Fever Services, Porton Down, UK.
¹¹ Department of Orthopaedics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
¹² Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord, NSW, Australia; Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹³ Department of Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK.
¹⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
¹⁵ National Centre for Infectious Diseases; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
¹⁶ Southampton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Microbiology Innovation and Research Unit (MIRU), Microbiology Department, Southampton, UK.
¹⁷ Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle Washington, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

PMID: 32194153
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105942

No abstract available

Keywords: Antibiotic stewardship; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic foot infections; Diabetic foot ulcers.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Bacterial Infections / drug therapy*
Diabetic Foot / complications
Diabetic Foot / drug therapy
Diabetic Foot / pathology*
Humans

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents