How Do Preoperative Antibiotics Affect Culture Yield in Diabetic Foot Infections? | Zendy

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How Do Preoperative Antibiotics Affect Culture Yield in Diabetic Foot Infections?

Author(s) -

Heather Young,

Whitney Miller,

Randy I. Burnham,

Susan Heard,

Chrystal Berg,

Timothy C Jenkins

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofx016

Subject(s) - antibiotics , medicine , diabetic foot , staphylococcus aureus , microbiology and biotechnology , foot (prosody) , microbiological culture , staphylococcus , diabetes mellitus , bacteria , biology , endocrinology , linguistics , philosophy , genetics

The impact of preoperative antibiotics on culture of diabetic foot infection samples has not been studied. We found that increasing exposure to preoperative antibiotics was associated with less frequent growth of streptococci and anaerobes and more culture-negative results. In contrast, the yield of and Gram-negative bacilli was unaffected.

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