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| vesicles that rupture and result in honey-colored crusting |
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| GAS (S. pyogenes) and Staph aureus |
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| well-demarcated erythematous patch with edema, pain, fever; face and legs most common sites; rapidly-spreading |
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| Well-demarcated brownish-red macular patches on inner thighs, crural region, and scrotum; toe web lesions appear as maceration |
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| Corynebacterium minutissimum |
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| subcutaneous tissue; redness, warmth, induration, pain, fever; red streaking is characteristic of ascending lymphangitis |
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| 2 most common causes of cellulitis |
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| S. aureus and S. pyogenes |
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| inflammation of hair follicles; seen in areas of friction |
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| main cause of folliculitis |
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| tender red subcutaneous nodule; becomes fluctuant; may drain spontaneously with pus |
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| Cause of facial cellulitis in young children |
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| cause of cellulitis in diabetics/debilitated patients |
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| S. aureus, enterobactericeae and anaerobes |
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| cause of gram neg folliculitis due to antibiotic acne therapy |
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| fungal cuase of folliculitis |
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| Pityrosporum ovale (yeast) |
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| cause of eosinophilic pustular folliculitis |
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| the HIV . . . how sure am I about this? I am HIV positive. |
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| Multiloculated subcutaneous nodules; appear in areas of friction or minor trauma; may ooze pus or weep |
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| large flaccid blisters at site of infection; most commonly seen in newborns and children; bullae form in response to epidermolytic toxin A produced by S. aureus |
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| Causes (2) of bullous impetigo |
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| flaccid, ill-defined bullae; Nikolsky sign (gentle stroking of skin cuases skin to separate at epidermis; sandpaper-like rash; perioral crusting; widespread desquamation |
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| Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) |
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| Cause of Staph scalded skin syndrome |
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| epidermolytic toxin A and B from S. aureus; infection from skin, throat, nose, mouth, umbilicus, or GI tract - NOT in the bullae |
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| localized collection of pus walled off by deposition of fibrin thrombi; indurated fluctuant nodule |
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| perirectal/perianal abcesses |
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| 5 causes of perirectal/perianal abscesses |
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| Bacteroides fragilis (most common); E. coli; Proteus; Bacteroides, and strep |
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| red linear streaks extending towards the local lymph nodes |
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| S. pyogenes; S. aureus, Pseudomonas |
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| deep infection that spreads rapidly through muscle plains with destruction of muscles, vasculature and nerves |
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| Cause of type I Necrotizing fasciitis |
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| cause of type II necrotizing fasciitis |
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| cause of type III necrotizing fasciitis |
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| gas gangrene or clostridial myonecrosis |
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| petechiae; stellate purpura, hemorrhagic bullae |
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| cause of acute meningococcemia |
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| N. meningitidis; carried in nasopharynx and transmitted via respiratory secretions |
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| Fever, rash, hypotension, constitutional symptoms, multi-organ involvement; *mucous membranes*: red eyes, mouth, vagina; *cutaneous*: diffuse erythema, strawberry tongue, desquamation of palms and soles |
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| Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome |
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| Staph TSS cause and predisposing factors |
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| S. aureus; predisposing factors include tampons and nasal packs |
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| fever, rash, hypotension, constitutional symptoms, multi-organ involvement; *cutaneous*: localized erythema more common than generalized; strawberry tongue, possible desquamation |
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| Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome |
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| Strep TSS cause and predisposing factors |
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| S. pyogenes; predisposing factors include cuts and burns |
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