Society guideline links: Skin and soft tissue infections

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Management of Staphylococcus aureus infection" and "Society guideline links: Dog and cat bites".)

Canada

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Practice point on invasive group A streptococcal disease – Management and chemoprophylaxis (2019)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe antibiotics after incision and drainage of uncomplicated skin abscesses unless extensive cellulitis exists (2018)

●CPS: Practice point on management of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin abscesses in children (2011, reaffirmed 2017)

United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book (2021)

•Bite wounds

•Clostridial myonecrosis

•Group A streptococcal infections

•Staphylococcus aureus

●American College of Physicians (ACP): Appropriate use of short-course antibiotics in common infections – Best practice advice (2021)

●Surgical Infection Society (SIS): Guidelines for the treatment of complicated skin and soft tissue infections, update (2021)

●Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC): Wound infection guideline recommendations (2018)

●Choosing Wisely: Avoid wound cultures in emergency department patients with uncomplicated skin and soft tissue abscesses after successful incision and drainage and with adequate medical follow-up (2013, updated 2018)

●Choosing Wisely: Don't routinely use antibiotics to treat bilateral swelling and redness of the lower leg unless there is clear evidence of infection (2015, sources updated 2016)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections, update (2014)

●IDSA and American Society for Microbiology (ASM): A guide to utilization of the microbiology laboratory for diagnosis of infectious diseases (2013)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on cellulitis and erysipelas – Antimicrobial prescribing (2019)