**4. Infection in diabetes**

The incidence of infections is increased in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) [1]. Some of these infections are also more likely to have a complicated course in diabetic than in non-diabetic patients [1]. Diabetic ketoacidosis, for example, is precipitated or complicated by an infection in 75% of the cases. The mortality rate of patients with an infection and ketoacidosis is 43% [1]. In a prospective study of 101,293 adult hospitalised patients, 1640 episodes of bacteraemia were diagnosed. Of 1000 hospitalised patients studied, 2/3 of the bacteraemia were found in patients with DM compared to 1/3 in patients without DM (*P* < 0.001) [2].
