Article
The Performance of Gram-Staining in Tailoring the Empirical Antibiotic Choice in Operated Diabetic Foot Infections
2025-03-07
Abstract excerpt
Current international guidelines recommend choosing an empirical antibiotic regimen for treating diabetic foot infections (DFI) based largely on the clinical severity of infection and the local microbiological epidemiology. This may lead to selecting unnecessarily broad spectrum initial empiric antibiotic therapy. Using data from our hospital in a large Swiss city, we retrospectively analyzed the performance of th...
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- Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Dermatological and COVID-19 studies
- Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
- Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
- Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Wound Healing and Treatments
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- Literature Corpus work
- aaecff86-803d-517e-a6a6-35cd071cc110
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202503.0408.v1