Diabetic foot ulcers: current advances in antimicrobial therapies and emerging treatments

JM Ramirez-Acuña, SA Cardenas-Cadena… - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are very important diabetes-related lesions that can lead to
serious physical consequences like amputations of limbs and equally severe social …

Staphylococcus aureus Toxins and Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Role in Pathogenesis and Interest in Diagnosis

C Dunyach-Remy, C Ngba Essebe, A Sotto… - Toxins, 2016 - mdpi.com
Infection of foot ulcers is a common, often severe and costly complication in diabetes.
Diabetic foot infections (DFI) are mainly polymicrobial, and Staphylococcus aureus is the …

Epidemiology of invasive group B streptococcal infections among nonpregnant adults in the United States, 2008-2016

LKF Watkins, L McGee, SJ Schrag, B Beall… - JAMA internal …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Group BStreptococcus (GBS) is an important cause of invasive bacterial
disease. Previous studies have shown a substantial and increasing burden of GBS …

Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of some plant extracts against antibiotic susceptible and resistant bacterial strains causing wound infection

NM Atef, SM Shanab, SI Negm, YA Abbas - Bulletin of the National …, 2019 - Springer
Background Due to rapid development of microbial resistance against chemotherapeutic
agents (mostly antibiotics), it has become essential currently to screen effective, safe, cheap …

Isolation and in vitro evaluation of bacteriophages against MDR-bacterial isolates from septic wound infections

RR Pallavali, VL Degati, D Lomada, MC Reddy… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Multi-drug resistance has become a major problem for the treatment of pathogenic bacterial
infections. The use of bacteriophages is an attractive approach to overcome the problem of …

[HTML][HTML] The diabetic foot microbiota: A review

J Jneid, JP Lavigne, B La Scola, N Cassir - Human Microbiome Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus represents a major public health threat worldwide. A serious complication
of diabetes is the development of foot ulcers which, when they become infected, are the …

Diagnosis and management of diabetic foot infections

AJM Boulton, DG Armstrong, MJ Hardman, M Malone… - 2020 - Am Diabetes Assoc
This compendium is a follow-up to the 2018 American Diabetes Association compendium
Diagnosis and Management of Diabetic Foot Complications. Whereas the first compendium …

[HTML][HTML] What's old is new again: Insights into diabetic foot microbiome

AAH Rajab, WAH Hegazy - World Journal of Diabetes, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diabetes is a chronic disease that is considered one of the most stubborn global health
problems that continues to defy the efforts of scientists and physicians. The prevalence of …

Secnidazole Is a Promising Imidazole Mitigator of Serratia marcescens Virulence

AN Khayyat, HA Abbas, MT Khayat, MA Shaldam… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic pathogen that causes diverse nosocomial
infections. S. marcescens has developed considerable resistance to different antibiotics and …

Not Only Antimicrobial: Metronidazole Mitigates the Virulence of Proteus mirabilis Isolated from Macerated Diabetic Foot Ulcer

AN Khayyat, HA Abbas, MFA Mohamed, HZ Asfour… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Diabetic foot ulcers are recognized to be a severe complication of diabetes, increasing the
risk of amputation and death. The bacterial infection of Diabetic foot ulcers with virulent and …