Archive for November, 2007

07 Nov

Bacterial Cultures for Diagnosis and Treatment

Bacterial cultures are not often necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the common skin infections. In fact, they are sometimes more confusing than helpful. The problem arises because cultures taken from moist, eczematous skin lesions very often recover “pathogenic” bacteria that are merely colonizing diseased skin. Antibacterial therapy based on such cultures has little […]