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		<title>Bioburden and Wound Healing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a number of years I have been presenting a lecture entitled &#8220;Differentiating infected from non-infected wounds&#8221;. As part of that talk I discuss the role of topical antimicrobials in wound healing. Despite there being a countless number of silver impregnated dressings along with multiple other antimicrobial dressings and solutions filled with all different types [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/antibiotics/bioburden-and-wound-healing/</link>
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		<title>Lasers and Onychomycosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our readers recently sent the blog the following comment:
“Anything new to add to comments in book about laser treatment of fungal nails?  In my area there are ads for DPMs offering this $1000 per treatment!  My question is; does it work?”
Up to this point I have been tacitly avoiding this topic waiting for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/onychomycosis/lasers-and-onychomycosis/</link>
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		<title>New York Clinical Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To any of my readers planning on attending the NY Clinical Conference this coming weekend, I will be in the exhibit hall at the DataTrace booth on Saturday January 30th.  I will be there to discuss this blog, sign copies of the 3rd Edition (not that it will increase the value of it&#8230;heck, it may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/uncategorized/new-york-clinical-conference/</link>
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		<title>Preventing Surgical Infections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two studies published in the January 7, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine have received a tremendous amount of play in the popular press.  One paper out of Baylor in Houston looked at comparing chlorhexidine + alcohol vs. povidone iodine as a preoperative surgical prep.  In a total of 849 subjects in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/mrsa/preventing-surgical-infections/</link>
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		<title>A Review of Telavancin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Telavancin (Vibativ – Theravance/Astellas) is a novel lipoglycopeptide, related to vancomycin, that has been recently approved by the FDA for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) caused by MRSA.  Telavancin now joins the ranks of vancomycin, linezolid, daptomycin and tigecycline as being the only 5 antibiotics with this approval.  An excellent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/mrsa/a-review-of-telavancin/</link>
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		<title>News Flash:  Ceftobiprole and the FDA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting news just came out yesterday.  It looks like J&#38;J’s new anti-MRSA cephalosporin, ceftobiprole has been, once again, turned back by the FDA. See the story here:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0572888.htm
Many of us had pretty high hopes for this antibiotic as it was to be the first cephalosporin active against MRSA.  Although it is IV only, the idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/mrsa/news-flash-ceftobiprole-and-the-fda/</link>
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		<title>Osteomyelitis and Antibiotics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Barry Block’s daily PM News (www.podiatrym.com) the other day a colleague presented a case of a neuropathic patient with no wounds presenting with what he felt was osteomyelitis of the 2nd and 3rd metatarsals.  Although I did not feel that the case was actually osteomyelitis, a feeling I expressed in a response to that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/antibiotics/osteomyelitis-and-antibiotics/</link>
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		<title>Diabetic Foot Infections &amp; Gram Negatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Todd Divan, a podiatric physician from Potomac, IL, sent me an excellent question via personal email.  On the belief that if one person asks a question, many others may be thinking the same thing, I reprint the question and answer here with Dr. Divan’s kind permission.
Dr. Joseph,
I listened to the lecture you have on PRESENT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/antibiotics/diabetic-foot-infections-gram-negatives/</link>
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		<title>Literature Review – December 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the ideas behind creating this blog was to be able to keep readers apprised of any new, interesting papers published in the infectious diseases and microbiology literature I follow on a regular basis. For background I will tell you that my 3 top journals include:
Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) – put out by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/mrsa/literature-review-%e2%80%93-december-2009/</link>
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		<title>Bone Cultures for Osteomyelitis: Challenging Current Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I were to ask any reader of this blog the proper technique for harvesting a bone culture I am fairly certain that the common response would be that it must be a) not taken through the ulcer or sinus tract b) taken from a separate clean site c) the patient should be off all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/osteomyelitis/bone-cultures-for-osteomyelitis-challenging-current-thinking/</link>
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