Alsina-Gibert M, Fuertes-Vega I
Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, España.
Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2007 Sep;98 Suppl 1:40-4. doi: 10.1016/s0001-7310(07)70180-1.
In the last years, there has been a great increase of bacterial resistance to the most frequently used antibiotics. Several factors should be considered when deciding to treat a cutaneous infection with a systemic treatment: characteristics of the patient, infection severity, prevalence and local resistance patterns of pathogens, and properties of available drugs.