Acquired adult-onset zinc deficiency is occasionally reported in patients with malnutrition states, such as alcoholism, or malabsorptive states, such as post-bariatric surgery. The defining symptoms of hypozincemia include a classic triad of necrolytic dermatitis, diffuse alopecia, and diarrhea. We report a case of zinc deficiency in a 39-year-old man with history of gastric bypass surgery and ...

Here we describe a rare clinical manifestation of canine pododemodicosis. A dog was presented with pedal erythema, scaling, crusting, severe edema and digit loss. The following diseases were taken into account for the differential diagnosis: pododemodicosis, lethal acrodermatitis, zinc responsive dermatosis and pemphigus foliaceus. Results from skin biopsies revealed the presence of Demodex spp...

From three endemic locations of erythema chronicum migrans disease in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, we recovered 19 isolates of a spirochete from Ixodes ricinus ticks. The infection rate in adult ticks was 16 percent. The isolated spirochete is immunologically related to the Ixodes dammini spirochete, Borrelia duttoni, and Treponema pallidum. Using indirect immunofluorescence, the sera of 90...

224 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Volume 8 | Issue 3 | May‐June 2017 Sir, A 13‐year‐old boy presented with dark‐colored, itchy skin lesions over both the extremities and back since 6 months. He was previously diagnosed as a case of lichen planus, dermatophytosis, and scabies elsewhere, and was treated unsuccessfully. He was a known case of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome since the age of 7 ...

For each positive integer n, let gn : I → I be defined by the formula gn (t) = v (nt). Observe that gn stretches n times and then folds the resulting interval [0, n] onto [0, 1]. The map g2 is the very well known “roof-top” map. For any two positive integers m and n, gm ◦ gn = gmn. Consequently, gn and gm commute (see, for example, [8, Proposition 2.2]). Let N = {n1, n2, . . . } be a sequence o...

We prove that every chainable continuum can be mapped into a dendroid such that all point-inverses consist of at most three points. In particular, it follows that there exists a finite-to-one map from a hereditarily indecomposable continuum (the pseudoarc) onto hereditarily decomposable continuum. This answers a question by J. Krasinkiewicz.

Cow's milk protein allergy is an adverse immune reaction to one or more of the constituent proteins of milk obtained from any animal, most commonly alpha s 1-casein cow's milk. In many cases, the allergy is genetic in origin. The infants may experience symptoms within minutes after feeding (rapid onset) or commonly after 7-10 days of consuming the cow's milk (slower onset). Many children with c...