A 54-year-old man with severe left upper extremity pain presented to the emergency department 1 day after a minor abrasion to the forearm. Physical examination of the extremity revealed warmth, erythema, exquisite tenderness, blue/violet skin discoloration, and tense bullae containing serous fluid. Systemically, the patient was hypotensive, tachycardic, febrile, and had a white blood cell count...

This article discusses the current techniques and future directions of infection imaging with particular attention to respiratory, central nervous system, abdominal, and postoperative infections. The agents currently in use localize to areas of infection and inflammation. An infection-specific imaging agent would greatly improve the utility of scintigraphy in imaging occult infections. The supe...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes S. aureus skin and soft-tissue infection in selected populations. OBJECTIVE To determine the proportion of infections caused by community-acquired MRSA, the clinical characteristics associated with community-acquired MRSA, and the molecular epidemiology of community-acquired MRSA am...

introduction: ubiquicidin (ubi) 29-41 is a synthetic antimicrobial peptide that binds with the microbial cell membrane at the location of infection. this study was conducted to evaluate its probable efficacy as an infection-imaging agent with potential to differentiate bacterial infection from sterile inflammation in humans. methods: fifteen diabetic foot patients (10 males and 5 females) with...

BACKGROUND We report a case of a rare complication of acute appendicitis with perforation through the abdominal wall. The case points out that an intraabdominal origin should be considered in patients presenting with rapidly spreading soft tissue infections of the trunk. CASE PRESENTATION A 58-year-old European woman presented to our hospital with a 1-week history of severe abdominal pain acc...