title: Hot topics in the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections.
abstract: Eighteen hot topics regarding the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs) were selected and reviewed by members of the SSTI Working Group of the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC). Despite the large amount of literature available on the issue selected, there are still many unknowns with regard to many of them and further studies are required to answer these challenging issues that face clinicians on a daily basis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. Electronic address: silvanoesposito@libero.it.
authors.forename: Silvano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Esposito
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Santa Maria Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy.
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bassetti
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Joseph Ducuing, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bonnet
authors.affiliation: Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Emilio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bouza
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Simone
authors.affiliation: Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Winchester, UK; Southampton University School of Medicine, Southampton, UK; Rare and Imported Pathogens Department, Public Health England, UK.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dryden
authors.affiliation: Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.affiliation: Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: David Chien
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Lye
authors.affiliation: Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, UK; Microbiology Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Basingstoke, UK; University of Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Kordo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saeed
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Segreti
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serhat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Unal
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ata Nevzat
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Yalcin
mesh_terms: D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D018461:Soft Tissue Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*
keywords: Diagnosis; Management; Skin and soft-tissue infection