Clinicoepidemiological Study of Bacterial Cutaneous Manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus in Jabir Abu Eliz Diabetic Centre Outpatient Clinic, Khartoum, Sudan

Introduction : Diabetes mellitus, DM, is a group of metabolic disorders with one common manifestation, which is hyperglycemia. Chronic hyperglycemia causes damage to skin, eye, kidney nerves, heart and blood vessels [1]. Objective: To identify the prevalence of common Bacterial Infections in Diabetic patients attending, anoutpatient clinic in JDC, in Khartoum City. Patients and Methods : The design was based on clinical studies, i.e. descriptive. Results : This study revealed that 3.6% of the diabetic patients examined have Bacterial cutaneous infections (BCI); most of them were males (56%), and 56% of the BCI patients are in the age group 40- 65 yrs. Old and 69.3% are married. Most of them are of Northern Sudanese origin (66.4%). BCI are common among housewives and retired men; approximately 66%. Those with the secondary school educational background represented 30.7%. Most patients are of type II DM (82.66%); they had the disease for duration of one year or more (90.7%). Most patients were on adiet, plus oral hypoglycemic drugs (66.3%). Bacterial infections represented 25.7% (furuncles alone were 21.5%). Conclusion s : Of the 4398 cases of diabetes mellitus examined for Bacterial cutaneous findings, only 150 diabetic patients (3.6%) showed Bacterial cutaneous lesions.