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Dermatology

SPIROCHETES

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  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this deck covers
    • How bacterial skin infections are classified
    • General approach to diagnosis

    3 slides

  2. 02

    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

    16 slides

  3. 03

    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

    11 slides

  4. 04

    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

    12 slides

  5. 05

    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)

    17 slides

  6. 06

    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)

    26 slides

  7. 07

    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

    20 slides

  8. 08

    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

    11 slides

  9. 09

    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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    32 slides