INTRODUCTION We describe a patient who developed an acute generalised pustular eruption associated with pyrexia at 33 weeks of gestation. CLINICAL PICTURE Her condition was complicated by preterm labour, requiring an emergency caesarean section delivery. A diagnosis of impetigo herpetiformis was made on clinicopathological grounds. TREATMENT Initial treatment with topical and systemic corti...

Of 162 cases of impetigo 134 (82.7%) had impetigo contagiosa and 28 (17.3%) were of bullous type. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from 113 (69.75%), Streptococcus pyogenes from 30 (18.51%) and both of these from 19 (11.74%) cases. All isolates were tested for their resistance pattern to 13 antibiotics in varying concentrations ranging from 0.01-100 yg/mI. The minimum inhibitory concentration...

The story, as told in the official publications of the Berlin Sanitary Department, is of 342 persons affected by a disease having the clinical characters of impetigo, communicable from person to person, occurring last summer in villages situated in the Island of Riigen, in the Baltic, after the vaccination of 79 children in the latter part of June. A Medical Commission appointed by the German M...

BACKGROUND More than 3.5 million children aged less than 5 years die from diarrhoea and acute lower respiratory-tract infection every year. We undertook a randomised controlled trial to assess the effect of handwashing promotion with soap on the incidence of acute respiratory infection, impetigo, and diarrhoea. METHODS In adjoining squatter settlements in Karachi, Pakistan, we randomly assign...

Based on a consideration of the histopathology of nonbullous impetigo that shows localization of Streptococcus pyogenes to highly differentiated, subcorneal keratinocytes, we hypothesized that adherence of an impetigo strain of S. pyogenes would be promoted by terminal differentiation of keratinocytes. An assay was developed in which S. pyogenes adhered via pilus-like projections from the cell ...