Primary inoculation skin tuberculosis by accidental needle stick

Preventing needle-stick injury.

HIV from a needle stick?

Great question! It?s wise to be in the know about workplace health risks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that approximately 385,000 sharps-related injuries (i.e., being stuck by a needle) occur in health care workers each year in the United States. But, fear not! There are things you can do to prevent a needlestick injury from happening (more on this later)! Gett...

Cases of Plague Following Accidental Inoculation

plague case in Madras one hour after death on October 7th. He was assisted by a native, who pricked his finger in sewing up the body. The medical officer felt ill on October 9th, was very ill on October 10th, temperature being 103?, and continued so until the night of October lGth, when the temperature became normal and he convalesced. The native, who pricked his finger, absented himself from w...

Accidental ingestion of a cocktail stick.

Cocktail stick (CS) ingestion injury has rarely been reported in the literature. It is a serious clinical problem with considerable morbidity and mortality, largely due to the fact that the event is unnoticed by the patient. We report a case of CS ingestion that went unrecognised by the patient and caused a perforation in the mid-small bowel. We discuss how injuries from such events can become ...

Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report

The authors report a case of cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old African male medical intern who contracted primary cutaneous from a needle-stick injury. Cultures of pus aspirated from the finger initially grew Staphylococcus aureus that led to a delay in the diagnosis.