Duration of ANtibiotic Therapy for CEllulitis

Summary

Cellulitis is among the most common infections leading to hospitalization, yet the optimal duration of therapy remains ill defined. Pragmatically, Dutch guidelines advise 10-14 days of antibiotics, which is the current standard of care. Recently it has been shown that antibiotic treatment for pneumonia and urinary tract infections can safely and significantly be shortened. Importantly, in an outpatient setting, treatment of uncomplicated cellulitis with 5 days of antibiotics was as effective as 10 days. We hypothesize that there is no difference in outcomes when patients hospitalized with cellulitis are treated with either a short-course (6 days) or standard-course (12 days) of antibiotics.

Timeline

Start

2014-08-26

Primary completion

2017-07-24

Completion

2017-09-25

Publications

• Cranendonk DR, Hugenholtz F, Prins JM, Savelkoul PHM, Budding AE, Wiersinga WJ; DANCE Consortium. The Skin Microbiota in Patients Hospitalized for Cellulitis and Association With Outcome. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Apr 8;68(8):1292-1299. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy709.
• Cranendonk DR, Opmeer BC, Prins JM, Wiersinga WJ. Comparing short to standard duration of antibiotic therapy for patients hospitalized with cellulitis (DANCE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Infect Dis. 2014 May 5;14:235. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-235.

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