Epidemiological trends in bacterial resistance in diabetic foot infections across the COVID-19 timeline: a retrospective analysis.

IJID Reg · 2026 · PMC13049285 · PMID 41938218

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

pneumoniae demonstrated an increasing trend, with resistance rates rising from 45% in the pre-COVID period to 50% during COVID and reaching 67% post-COVID, although this variation did not achieve statistical significance.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

The distribution of individual pathogens varied across the three study periods, with fluctuations observed for several species; however, when analyzed independently, these variations did not reach statistical significance.

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