Branch-Elliman W, Sturgeon D, Karchmer AW, Mull HJ. Association Between Diabetic Foot Infection Wound Culture Positivity and 1-Year Admission for Invasive Infection: A Multicenter Cohort Study.
Open Forum Infect Dis 2021;
8:ofab172. [PMID:
34631923 DOI:
10.1093/ofid/ofab172]
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Abstract
Inpatients with culture-positive diabetic foot infections are at elevated risk for subsequent invasive infection with the same causative organism. In outpatients with index diabetic foot ulcers, we found that wound culture positivity was independently associated with increased odds of 1-year admission for systemic infection when compared with culture-negative wounds.
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