Clinical features and Staphylococcus aureus colonization/infection in childhood atopic dermatitis.

CONCLUSIONS: Clinical features, especially severity and lesion intensity, are useful in "predicting" moderate-to-heavy SA colonization/infection in AD patients. Cloxacillin has a favorable sensitivity profile for MSSA, and co-trimoxazole and fusidic acid for MRSA. As colonization and infection are ambiguous and potentially overlapping clinical states, we recommend to abandon these terms and propose to describe quantitatively/semi-quantitatively SA isolation as none, mild, scanty, moderate or heavy growth instead in clinical trials. PMID: 26558412 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Dermatological Treatment - Category: Dermatology Tags: J Dermatolog Treat Source Type: research