Weighted-incidence syndromic combination antibiogram (WISCA) to guide antibiotic regimens for empiric treatment of prosthetic joint infections: A retrospective cohort study Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are now routinely treated with oral antibiotics, but selecting empiric regimens is challenging, including for treatment of culture-negative PJIs. Although antibiogra...

📣 What is a #WISCA?

It's something you should probably use for culture-negative prosthetic joint infections. Local antibiograms alone can be misleading.

This WISCA showed that doxycycline + a fluoroquinolone offer best coverage for #PJI

#IDSky #clinmicro #ortho
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