In addition to surgical drainage, does antibiotic therapy improve the overall management of a skin abscess? A randomized trial was carried out in five hospital emergency departments comparing simple ...

Draining simple skin abscesses in combination with antibiotic treatment is more effective than drainage alone, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers ...

Antibiotics in conjunction with incision and drainage improved short-term outcomes compared with incision and drainage alone. Patients with a simple abscess who received clindamycin or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Skin and soft tissue infections are characterized by invasion of a bacterial pathogen. The type of skin ...

New research could change treatment approaches to simple skin abscesses, infections often caused by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria. New multicenter research, which included Vanderbilt ...

Outpatients with uncomplicated skin infections who took clindamycin or a trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole combination (TMP-SMX) experienced similar benefits and risks, leading the research team to ...

Every year between four and five million Americans suffer from chronic non-healing wounds, many caused by diabetes, poor circulation, pressure ulcers or other conditions. Proper wound care is ...

In the first study of its kind, researchers found patients with S. aureus skin and soft tissue infections took, on average, just 57% of their prescribed antibiotic doses after leaving the hospital, ...

Most often cellulitis affects the dermis, the layer of the skin below the top layer (the epidermis) that contains connective tissue, blood vessels, oil and sweat glands, nerves, hair follicles, and ...