OBJECTIVES Occupational saturation divers have various skin disorders, of which skin infections are the most serious and frequent. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the microbe most often isolated from skin infections in divers. The purpose of the present work was (a) to report the occurrence of P aeruginosa in skin infections in operational saturation diving in the North Sea from 1987 to 1995; (b) to ...

Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) have increasing prevalence in clinical practice. The emergence of resistant pathogens and especially methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has led to an increase in the number of hospitalizations due to SSTIs. Daptomycin has been shown to achieve good concentrations in skin and soft tissues and is effective and safe for the treatment of SSTIs...

treatment that allows pathogenic bacteria to multiply on the skin. Uncomplicated SSSIs can occur in the various layers of the skin (Figure 1) and in underlying tissue, and they are classified as primary infections, such as impetigo, or as secondary infections of existing lesions, which include atopic dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis, and psoriasis. Infections occurring in lacerations, su...

Skin infections with bacteria (pyoderma) or yeast (Malassezia dermatitis) often are found in dogs secondary to other diseases such as seborrhea, endocrine diseases and allergic diseases. Many of these cases have abnormalities in skin barrier function or desquamation and even when the primary disease is controlled if this defect is not corrected the dog may still be prone to recurrent infections...

The frequency of neonatal skin disorders has not been well studied in Egypt. Our aim was to address patterns of dermatological changes in a sample of Egyptian newborns. In a descriptive prospective cohort study 600 newborns in Sohag University hospital nursery were dermatologically examined within the first 5 days of birth. Skin disorders were detected in 240 neonates (40.0%). Birthmarks were f...

Distant metastases are rare during the course of ovarian carcinoma. Ovarian epithelial adenocarcinomas rarely metastasize to the skin which is seen in less than 4% of patients. It usually presents as subcutaneous nodules and, less commonly, as inflammatory metastases which mimic cellulitis or viral or bacterial skin infections. The histology in most of the tumours is grade 1 or 2 serous p...

conclusions according to the results of the study, the most common causes of hospital admission were respiratory infections (e.g. pneumonia), nervous system infections, tuberculosis, septicemia, skin and soft tissue infections and utis. considering the diversity of infections, epidemiological evaluation of these diseases is essential, especially in regions with high prevalence of infectious dis...

Approximately 20% of rural Alaskan homes lack in-home piped water; residents haul water to their homes. The limited quantity of water impacts the ability to meet basic hygiene needs. We assessed rates of infections impacted by water quality (waterborne, e.g. gastrointestinal infections) and quantity (water-washed, e.g. skin and respiratory infections) in communities transitioning to in-home pip...