Hot topics in necrotising skin and soft tissue infections

Kordo Saeed¹, Silvano Esposito², Ian Gould³, Tiziana Ascione⁴, Matteo Bassetti⁵, Eric Bonnet⁶, Emilio Bouza⁷, Monica Chan⁸, Joshua S Davis⁹, Giuseppe De Simone², Matthew Dryden¹⁰, Thomas Gottlieb¹¹, Karolin Hijazi¹², David C Lye¹³, Pasquale Pagliano⁴, Christina Petridou¹⁴, Elda Righi⁵, John Segreti¹⁵, Serhet Unal¹⁶, Ata Nevzat Yalcin¹⁷; International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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¹ Department of Microbiology, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and Winchester, UK; University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton, UK.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
³ Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK.
⁴ AORN dei Colli Dept of Infectious Diseases, Naples, Italy.
⁵ Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Medicine University of Udine and Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata, Udine, Italy.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Joseph Ducuing, Toulouse, France.
⁷ Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia; and Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, NT, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and Winchester, UK; University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton, UK; Public Health England, Porton Down, UK.
¹¹ Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Concord Hospital, Concord, NSW, Australia.
¹² Institute of Dentistry, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen.
¹³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Communicable Diseases Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
¹⁴ Public Health England, Porton Down, UK.
¹⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
¹⁷ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.

PMID: 29501822
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.02.012

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Hot topics in necrotising skin and soft tissue infections

Kordo Saeed et al. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2018 Jul.

. 2018 Jul;52(1):1-10.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.02.012. Epub 2018 Mar 6.

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and Winchester, UK; University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton, UK.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
³ Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK.
⁴ AORN dei Colli Dept of Infectious Diseases, Naples, Italy.
⁵ Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Medicine University of Udine and Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata, Udine, Italy.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Joseph Ducuing, Toulouse, France.
⁷ Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia; and Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, NT, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and Winchester, UK; University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton, UK; Public Health England, Porton Down, UK.
¹¹ Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Concord Hospital, Concord, NSW, Australia.
¹² Institute of Dentistry, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen.
¹³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Communicable Diseases Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
¹⁴ Public Health England, Porton Down, UK.
¹⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
¹⁷ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.

PMID: 29501822
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.02.012

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Keywords: Gas gangrene; Intravenous immunoglobulin G; Necrotising fasciitis; Panton-Valentine leukocidin; Pyomyositis; Skin and soft tissue infections.

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