TY - JOUR
T1 - Limited Clinical Utility of Routine Mycobacterial Cultures for the Management of Diabetic Foot Infections
AU - Castellino, Laila M.
AU - McCormick-Baw, Clare
AU - Coye, Tyler
AU - Crisologo, Peter A.
AU - Hanna, John J.
AU - Lee, Francesca
AU - Clark, Andrew
AU - Fanning, Michael
AU - Killeen, Amanda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PY - 2023/11/1
Y1 - 2023/11/1
N2 - Mycobacterial infections of the foot and ankle are uncommon. In a cohort of 2340 patients with diabetic foot infection (DFI) in a region with increased prevalence of mycobacterial disease, we identified no clinically significant positive cultures over a 3-year period. Routine mycobacterial culture of DFIs is of limited clinical utility.
AB - Mycobacterial infections of the foot and ankle are uncommon. In a cohort of 2340 patients with diabetic foot infection (DFI) in a region with increased prevalence of mycobacterial disease, we identified no clinically significant positive cultures over a 3-year period. Routine mycobacterial culture of DFIs is of limited clinical utility.
KW - acid-fast bacillus cultures
KW - diabetic foot infection
KW - nontuberculous mycobacteria
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U2 - 10.1093/ofid/ofad558
DO - 10.1093/ofid/ofad558
M3 - Article
C2 - 38023547
AN - SCOPUS:85178393810
SN - 2328-8957
VL - 10
JO - Open Forum Infectious Diseases
JF - Open Forum Infectious Diseases
IS - 11
M1 - ofad558
ER -