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Prevalence of Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Infections in Diabetic versus Nondiabetic Wounds
Joint Authors
Trivedi, Urvish
Parameswaran, Shamini
Armstrong, Andrew
Burgueno-Vega, Diana
Griswold, John
Dissanaike, Sharmila
Rumbaugh, Kendra
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-6, 6 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-06-25
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Diabetes mellitus (DM) affects 23.6 million people in the USA and approximately 20–25% of diabetic patients will develop foot ulceration during the course of their disease.
Up to a quarter of these patients will develop infections that will necessitate amputation.
Although many studies report that the rates of antibiotic resistant infections have increased dramatically in the DM population over the last decade, to our knowledge there have been no reports directly comparing the rates of antibiotic resistant infections in DM versus non-DM wounds.
We performed a retrospective study comparing the wound infections of 41 DM patients to those of 74 non-DM patients to test the hypothesis that infections with multidrug resistant organisms (MDRO) were more prevalent in the DM population.
We found that 63.4% of DM and 50% of non-DM patients had MDRO infections, which was not statistically different.
However, 61% of the DM patients had Pseudomonas infections compared to only 18.9% of non-DM patients.
Furthermore, DM patients had significantly more coinfections with both Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus aureus.
Though our initial hypothesis was incorrect, we demonstrated a significant correlation between Pseudomonas and Pseudomonas/S.
aureus coinfections within DM wounds.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Trivedi, Urvish& Parameswaran, Shamini& Armstrong, Andrew& Burgueno-Vega, Diana& Griswold, John& Dissanaike, Sharmila…[et al.]. 2014. Prevalence of Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Infections in Diabetic versus Nondiabetic Wounds. Journal of Pathogens،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-6.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Trivedi, Urvish…[et al.]. Prevalence of Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Infections in Diabetic versus Nondiabetic Wounds. Journal of Pathogens No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-6.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Trivedi, Urvish& Parameswaran, Shamini& Armstrong, Andrew& Burgueno-Vega, Diana& Griswold, John& Dissanaike, Sharmila…[et al.]. Prevalence of Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Infections in Diabetic versus Nondiabetic Wounds. Journal of Pathogens. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1042751
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1042751