OBJECTIVE This retrospective study was designed to investigate the possible reasons for an apparent increase in fusidic acid resistance among Staphylococcus aureus. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Datastore records of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Wales, UK were reviewed in conjunction with information concerning the prescribing of fusidic acid. RESULTS During the 5 year study per...

OBJECTIVES To provide information on the susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus causing skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in France, Ireland and the UK. PATIENTS AND METHODS One thousand three hundred and ninety patients attending their general practitioners for skin infections were recruited. Susceptibility to 11 antimicrobials using CLSI (formerly NCCLS) broth microdilution was deter...

Staphylococcus aureus has been consistently isolated from a high proportion of impetiginous lesions, and in several recent studies, it was present in the majority of the cases. Since recently a large proportion of S. aureus strains in our community showed erythromycin resistance, we undertook a prospective double-blind controlled study comparing topical mupirocin with oral erythromycin to deter...

BACKGROUND To support antibiotic prescribing for both hospital and community-based health professionals working in remote North Western Australia, a multidisciplinary Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Committee was established in 2013. This Committee is usually focused on hospital-based prescribing. A troubling increase in sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim resistance in Staphylococcus aureus antibiog...

BACKGROUND: Primary pyodermas are common in children. Environmental factors like overcrowding, hygiene, poverty, malnutrition etc. have been implicated to predispose to pyoderma, especially in children. OBJECTIVES: 1.To evaluate the epidemiological spectrum of pyoderma in children,2.To assess the role of predisposing factors 3.To determine the clinical profile of the cases and 4. To isolate the...

Cutaneous infections are common in atopic dermatitis (AD) due to impaired skin barrier and immunologic dysfunction. Early- late-onset pediatric AD distinct phenotypes that vary disease persistence risk of other comorbidities. However, whether infection varies by the timing onset is unknown. Using population-based, electronic medical records data from UK, we examined a cohort children enrolled w...

under our observation. Age.?The age incidence of leucoderma is from 1 to 2 years and upwards, and the commonest period of onset is in the second and third decades of life. Leprosy and filarial lymphangitis and elephantiasis are rare in children. As mentioned in books, we found impetigo contagiosa very common in children, tinea tonsurans under 10 or 12 years of age, acne vulgaris in adolescents ...