Research Article

Bacterial Profile and Antibiotic Resistance in Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcer in Guangzhou, Southern China: Focus on the Differences among Different Wagner’s Grades, IDSA/IWGDF Grades, and Ulcer Types

Table 1

Characteristics of DFIs of varying Wagner’s grades, IDSA/IWGDF grades, and DFU types.

Clinical characteristicWagner’s gradesIDSA/IWGDF gradesDFU types
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Number of patients (n)734443215453953559
Mean age (years, y)a66.7 ± 14.864.7 ± 9.764.0 ± 11.066.1 ± 11.663.465.9 ± 11.265.0 ± 11.662.2 ± 11.564.8 ± 11.563.4 ± 14.065.5 ± 11.0
Male/female (n)2/520/1430/1420/121/034/2032/215/435/182/335/24
Duration of diabetes1.5 (59.0)2.5 (23.0)18.6 (24.5)4.2 (7.6)1.82.7 (23.9)6.5 (23.5)2.8 (13.6)4 (23.0)24 (31.3)6.8 (10.5)
(months, m)b
BMIa24.5 ± 6.024.5 ± 5.623.4 ± 2.727.0 ± 2.125.924.0 ± 4.427.7 ± 2.123.3 ± 2.228.3 ± 2.124.9 ± 3.923.4 ± 3.8
HbA1c (%)a6.5 ± 1.48.9 ± 2.08.0 ± 2.38.8 ± 2.97.98.6 ± 2.47.9 ± 2.19.9 ± 3.28.6 ± 2.29.6 ± 2.88.3 ± 2.6
CRP (mg/L)b19.7 (76.3)22 (46.5)25.5 (72.8)91.9 (226.9)1121.8 (47.5)49.3 (117.9)197.6 (231.4)22.7 (69.5)10.9 (129.0)70 (82.7)
PCT (mmol/L)b0.2 (0.1)0.2 (0.3)1.0 (0.3)2.5 (0.6)00.2 (0.2)0.7 (0.1)2.4 (0.4)0.2 (0.1)0.1 (0.0)0.7 (0.2)
Newly diagnosedc1 (14.3)11 (32.4)7 (15.9)12 (37.5)0 (0.0)21 (38.8)8 (15.1)2 (22.2)11 (20.75)0 (0.0)20 (33.8)
Polymicrobial infectionc4 (57.1)22 (64.7%)24 (54.5%)20 (62.5%)0 (0.0)38 (70.4%)27 (50.9%)6 (66.7%)28 (52.8%)1 (20.0%)41 (69.5%)

aExpressed as mean ± SD; bexpressed as media (interquartile range); cexpressed as number (percentage); BMI: body mass index; CRP: C-reaction protein; PCT: procalcitonin. , compared between different groups.