Mupirocin is an antibiotic that helps to prevent bacteria from growing on your skin. It comes in various forms such as topical ointment, topical cream and nasal ointment. What is the purpose of Betadine? Betadine is used on the skin to treat or prevent skin infection in minor cuts, scrapes...
edema, or both is variable.[16]Streptococcus pyogenesandStaphylococcus aureusare common causative aerobic bacteria. Mild cases can receive topical antibiotic therapy such as mupirocin 2% cream 3 times a day for
In this study, a new topical antibiotic ointment, mupirocin, was compared with oral erythromycin ethylsuccinate in the treatment of impetigo. Seventy-five patients clinically diagnosed as having impetigo and with positive cultures of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, or both were examined in...
Mupirocin is the antibiotic agent commonly used in these intervention studies. However, due to its popularity, resistance to mupirocin is on the rise, compromising its usefulness as an intervention tool in the prevention ofS. aureus infections33. Also, the cost-effectiveness of applying mupirocin in...
An average of 2% to 4% of all Total Knee Arthroplasties (TKA/TKR) result in a Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) (Ashraf et al. , 2018). These surgical site infections cause significant distress to the patient and require extended courses of antibiotic treatment and revision surgery of the ...