How reliable are cultures of specimens from superficial swabs compared with those of deep tissue in patients with diabetic foot ulcers?

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 225-229

  Mutluoglu, Mesut ^a   Uzun, Günalp ^a   Turhan, Vedat ^a   Gorenek, Levent ^a   Ay, Hakan ^a   Lipsky, Benjamin A ^b  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetic foot ulcer; Swab culture; Tissue biopsy; Wound microbiology

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCOCCUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TISSUE CULTURE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84861609591     PISSN: 10568727     EISSN: 1873460X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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