PURPOSE We evaluated the characteristics of central venous port (CVP)-related infection with microbiological assessments in patients with malignant tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a prospective setting, patients with CVP for the treatment of malignant tumors were enrolled in this study. The incidence of CVP-related infection during three months was determined. Microbiological surveillance fr...

Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (SSTI) resulting from cat bites most commonly occur due to Pasteurella infection. However, other pathogens such as Β-Hemolytic Streptococci

Staphylococcus aureus is the leading cause of skin infections. In a mouse model of S. aureus skin infection, we found that lesion size did not correlate with bacterial burden. Athymic nude mice had smaller skin lesions that contained lower levels of myeloperoxidase, IL-17A, and CXCL1, compared with wild type mice, although there was no difference in bacterial burden. T cell deficiency did not e...

The role of quantitative bacteriology is considered controversial for the prediction of infection in open fractures. A study was done in 20 patients with open fractures. Post debridement pieces of skin, muscle and periosteal tissue were obtained for quantitative bacterial counts. Among a total of 50 samples from all of the tissues, 29 showed positive bacterial counts (16 of 20 skin, 11 of 20 mu...

This 1-year multicentre prospective study in northern France sought to evaluate the incidence of secondary bacterial skin complications related to varicella, describe these superinfections, and analyse risk factors for their onset. The study included every child admitted to a district paediatric unit with a varicella infection. Patients with varicella infection, with and without secondary bacte...

Skin infection studies are often limited by financial and ethical constraints, and alternatives, such as monolayer cell culture, do not reflect many cellular processes limiting their application. For a more functional replacement, 3D skin culture models offer many advantages such as the maintenance of the tissue structure and the cell types present in the host environment. A 3D skin culture mod...

BACKGROUND Multinucleated giant cells in the epidermis can either be epithelial or histiocytic. Epithelial multinucleated giant cells are most often associated with herpes virus infections. PURPOSE To review the histologic differential diagnosis of conditions with epithelial and histiocytic multinucleated giant cells-since multinucleated giant cells in the epidermis are not always pathognomon...

atypical mycobacterium granulomatous skin infections are often accured by mycobacterium marinum, m. ulcerans, m. fortuitum, and m. avium colonies. skin infections probably originate from an environmental source such as contacting with aquatic animals, fish farming and swimming in the pools, and inoculate into skin through skin wounds, scratches, trauma, and surgery. the lesions appear as purple...

Abstract: Mycetoma is a chronic suppurative infection affecting skin, subcutaneous tissue, and bones which common in tropical subtropical regions. The manifestations of mycetoma are painless mass, multiple sinuses purulent or seropurulent discharge that may contain grains. We reported case 39-year-old female with complaint skin mass her left breast for about year. clinical diagnosis was tumour ...

People with diabetes are more prone to Staphylococcus aureus skin infection than healthy individuals. Control of S. aureus infection depends on dendritic cell (DC)-induced T-helper 17 (Th17)-mediated neutrophil recruitment and bacterial clearance. DC ingestion of infected apoptotic cells (IACs) drive prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) secretion to generate Th17 cells. We speculated that hyperglycemia inhi...