@article{233b1a01ddba40d5958ef1c1379f46c2,
title = "Limited Clinical Utility of Routine Mycobacterial Cultures for the Management of Diabetic Foot Infections",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "acid-fast bacillus cultures, diabetic foot infection, nontuberculous mycobacteria",
author = "Castellino, \{Laila M.\} and Clare McCormick-Baw and Tyler Coye and Crisologo, \{Peter A.\} and Hanna, \{John J.\} and Francesca Lee and Andrew Clark and Michael Fanning and Killeen, \{Amanda L.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 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.",
year = "2023",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/ofid/ofad558",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
journal = "Open Forum Infectious Diseases",
issn = "2328-8957",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "11",
}