Antibiotic treatment and resistance in chronic wounds of vascular origin

Autor: Dimitar Petkov, Irena Mladenova, Valentina Tzaneva, Galina Todorova
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Clujul Medical
ISSN: 1222-2119
Popis: Background and aim. The problem of antibiotic resistance is worldwide and affects many types of pathogens. This phenomenon has been growing for decades and nowadays we are faced with a wide range of worrisome pathogens that are becoming resistant and many pathogens that may soon be untreatable. The aim of this study was to determine the resistance and antibiotic treatment in chronic wounds of vascular origin.Methods. We performed a cross sectional study on a sample of patients with chronic vascular wounds, hospitalized between October 2014 and August 2015, in the Clinic of Vascular Surgery in Trakia Hospital Stara Zagora. The statistical analysis of data was descriptive, considering the p value of ≤0.05, the threshold of statistical significance.Results. In the group of 110 patients, the significantly most frequent chronic wound (p
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