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Dermatology
SPIROCHETES
Built from Dermatology, 5th Edition

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9 sections · 148 slides
Overview
- What this deck covers
- How bacterial skin infections are classified
- General approach to diagnosis
Pyogenic and Toxin-Mediated Skin Infections
Selected figures of staphylococcal and streptococcal skin disease from this chapter
- About this section
- Impetigo
- Bullous impetigo of the diaper area
- Bullous impetigo of the trunk
- Bullous impetigo of the axilla
- Staphylococcal impetigo of the face
- Acute paronychia
- Bacterial abscess
- Palmar lesions of staphylococcal endocarditis
- Blistering distal dactylitis
- Ecthyma
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome: histopathology
- Desquamation after scarlet fever
- Erysipelas of the face
- Cutaneous anthrax
Neisseria meningitidis
Acute and chronic meningococcemia
- What is meningococcemia
- Who is at risk
- How the infection spreads in the body
- Acute meningococcemia: the rash
- Acute meningococcemia: complications
- Chronic meningococcemia
- Retiform purpura in meningococcal sepsis
- Diagnosis
- What else can look like this
- Treatment
- Vaccination
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
From green nail syndrome to ecthyma gangrenosum
- What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Green nail syndrome
- Green nail syndrome: diagnosis and treatment
- Pseudomonal pyoderma
- Superficial Pseudomonas skin infection
- Blastomycosis-like pyoderma, and treatment
- Otitis externa (swimmer's ear)
- Necrotizing (malignant) otitis externa
- Pseudomonal folliculitis (hot tub folliculitis)
- Pseudomonas hot-foot syndrome
- Ecthyma gangrenosum
- Ecthyma gangrenosum: diagnosis and treatment
Bartonella
Bartonellosis, cat scratch disease, and bacillary angiomatosis
- What is Bartonella
- Bartonellosis: two-phase disease
- Bartonellosis: transmission and history
- Oroya fever: clinical features
- Verruga peruana: clinical features
- Bartonellosis: pathology and diagnosis
- Bartonellosis: treatment
- Cat scratch disease: what it is
- Cat scratch disease: clinical features
- Cat scratch disease: diagnosis and treatment
- Bacillary angiomatosis: what it is
- Bacillary angiomatosis: appearance
- Bacillary angiomatosis: pathology and diagnosis
- Bacillary angiomatosis: treatment
- Major Bartonella species: diseases and treatment
- Major Bartonella species: diseases and treatment (continued)
- Major Bartonella species: diseases and treatment (continued)
Other Gram-Negative Skin Infections
Brucellosis, glanders, melioidosis, tularemia, plague, and more
- Brucellosis: overview
- Brucellosis: clinical features
- Brucellosis: diagnosis and treatment
- Glanders
- Melioidosis
- Cutaneous malacoplakia
- Tularemia
- Tularemia: diagnosis and treatment
- Haemophilus influenzae cellulitis
- Rhinoscleroma
- Rhinoscleroma: clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment
- Rhinoscleroma: clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment (continued)
- Salmonellosis
- Salmonellosis: treatment
- Rat-bite fever
- Rat-bite fever: diagnosis and treatment
- Plague
- Plague: severity and treatment
- Vibrio vulnificus infection
- Vibrio vulnificus: treatment
- Risk factors for Vibrio vulnificus infection
- Risk factors for Vibrio vulnificus infection (continued)
- Risk factors for Vibrio vulnificus infection (continued)
- Risk factors for Vibrio vulnificus infection (continued)
- Selected gram-negative bacterial infections: organism and skin findings
- Selected gram-negative bacterial infections: organism and skin findings (continued)
Spirochetes
Lyme disease, the treponematoses, and leptospirosis
- What are spirochetes
- Lyme disease: the organism and its tick
- How the tick transmits Lyme disease
- Lyme disease beyond the skin
- Major extracutaneous features of Lyme disease
- Borrelial lymphocytoma
- Borrelial lymphocytoma: diagnosis
- Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA)
- ACA: how it looks
- Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans
- ACA: diagnosis and outlook
- Non-venereal (endemic) treponematoses: overview
- Three non-venereal treponematoses
- Treponematoses: diagnosis and treatment
- Yaws
- Yaws: eradication efforts
- Pinta
- Bejel (endemic syphilis)
- Leptospirosis
- Leptospirosis: course and treatment
Bacteria Once Classified as Fungi
Actinomycosis and nocardiosis
- Why these were once called fungi
- Actinomycosis: what it is
- Cervicofacial actinomycosis ('lumpy jaw')
- Cervicofacial actinomycosis: draining sinus tracts
- Actinomycosis: other forms
- Actinomycosis: pathology and diagnosis
- Actinomycosis: treatment
- Nocardiosis: what it is
- Four major clinical forms of cutaneous nocardiosis
- Four major clinical forms of cutaneous nocardiosis (continued)
- Nocardiosis: pathology, diagnosis, treatment
Distinguishing Cellulitis From Its Mimics
Risk-scoring tools for pseudocellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis
- Cellulitis has many mimics ('pseudocellulitis')
- Erythema migrans mistaken for cellulitis
- Drug extravasation mistaken for cellulitis
- The ALT-70 score
- ALT-70 cellulitis prediction model
- ALT-70 cellulitis prediction model (continued)
- Necrotizing fasciitis: a surgical emergency
- Laboratory risk indicator for necrotizing fasciitis (LRINEC) score
- Laboratory risk indicator for necrotizing fasciitis (LRINEC) score (continued)
- Laboratory risk indicator for necrotizing fasciitis (LRINEC) score (continued)
- Necrotizing fasciitis of the arm
- Necrotizing fasciitis due to group A Streptococcus
- Necrotizing fasciitis in a patient with HIV infection
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- Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)