Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in diabetic foot ulcers

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Louie TJ. Bartlett JG. Tally FP. Gorbach SL. x Annals of Internal Medicine. [JC:5a6] 85(4):461-3, 1976 Oct. x Twenty diabetic foot ulcers were cultured using optimal microbiologic x techniques. Anaerobic bacteria coexisted with the more commonly recognized x aerobic bacteria in 18 specimens. There were a total of 116 isolates with x an average of 5.8 species per specimen (3.2 aerobes and 2.6 anaerobes). x The principal isolates were Bacteroides species (sp.) (17 strains), x peptococci (16), Proteus sp. (11), enterococci (9), Staphylococcus aureus x (7), clostridia (7), and Escherichia coli (6). When antimicrobial therapy x is indicated the selection of agents should consider the likelihood of a x complex aerobic-anaerobic flora. x