Clinical significance of the isolation of <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i> from bone biopsy in diabetic foot osteomyelitis

Abstract

Staphylococcus epidermidis should be considered as a real pathogen, not only a contaminant, in diabetic patients with foot osteomyelitis when the bacterium is isolated from the bone. No differences in the outcomes of surgical treatment have been found with cases which Staphlylococcus aureus was isolated.