What's the difference between ecthyma and impetigo?
Ecthyma
Definition:
(n.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ecthyma contagiosum, or orf, is an uncommon dermatosis resulting from cutaneous infection with sheep pox virus.
(2) Clinically, they resembled ecthyma gangrenosum associated with Pseudomonas septicemia.
(3) Both agents were considered to be safe and effective medications for treating impetigo and ecthyma.
(4) Bullae and nodules, as well as ecthyma gangrenosum, can be early cutaneous signs of pseudomonal sepsis.
(5) The problems of combat measures against contagious ecthyma (scabby mouth) of sheep and the human Orf-virus infections are discussed.
(6) Patients survived four episodes of ecthyma gangrenosum when granulocyte transfusions were used and the single episode in which they were not used was fatal.
(7) Typically, ecthyma gangrenosum occurs in patients with septicemia and risk factors (chemotherapy, neutropenia).
(8) A 4-year-old girl with leukaemia developed fever and ecthyma gangrenosum.
(9) Contagious pustular dermatitis (CPD, contagious ecthyma, Orf) is a highly contagious viral disease afflicting sheep and goats.
(10) On the basis of these serologic findings and previously published serologic or clinical data, it is now known that the alpaca can be infected with the following viruses: parainfluenza-3, bovine respiratory syncytial virus, bovine herpesvirus-1, bluetongue virus, border disease virus, influenza A virus, rotavirus, rabies virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, foot-and-mouth disease virus, and contagious ecthyma virus.
(11) Ecthyma gangrenosum has not been described during the course of blood stream invasion with Pseudomonas maltophilia, although it occurs with a 30% frequency in Pseudomonas aeruginosa septicemia.
(12) Intracellular viral particles were present, and sections of skin were positive for ovine contagious ecthyma virus by a fluorescent antibody test.
(13) Restriction enzyme analysis with KpnI revealed heterogeneity among 10 different strains of contagious ecthyma virus from sheep, musk ox, Dall sheep and humans.
(14) Two of the isolates (CEV-29A and CEV-378) were from outbreaks of ecthyma in sheep and one (CEV-102) from a human case of orf.
(15) One case was confirmed as prosthetic valve endocarditis and one case was complicated by recurrent attacks of ecthyma gangrenosum.
(16) Most notable of naturally occurring viral infections in the NWC would be rabies, ecthyma, and a recently described blindness neuropathy that has been associated with the equine herpesvirus I. NWC can be infected experimentally with agents causing hoof-and-mouth disease and vesicular stomatitis, but naturally occurring cases do not seem to occur.
(17) A retrospective analysis of all cases of P. aeruginosa skin infections seen at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since 1962 revealed 16 episodes of the infection (ecthyma gangrenosum, 8 episodes, 7 patients; cellulitis, 8 episodes, 7 patients) in which blood cultures were uniformly negative for P. aeruginosa.
(18) Multiple gangrenous ecthymas, consisting of deep ulcers, induration and inflammation, were observed in the skin over the entire body.
(19) Sera were evaluated for antibodies against respiratory syncytial virus, ovine progressive pneumonia, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, PI-3, bovine viral diarrhea, brucellosis, leptospirosis, contagious ecthyma, bluetongue, and epizootic hemorrhagic disease.
(20) Infectious and non-infectious complications may be accompanied by typical skin alterations, such as ecthyma in sepsis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, multiple ulcers due to embolic infarct, or hypersensitivity reactions mediated by an immunological process.
Impetigo
Definition:
(n.) A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
(2) This bacteriologically controlled, randomized study compared the safety and efficacy of mupirocin with oral erythromycin in the treatment of pyoderma and impetigo.
(3) The most common blistering diseases encountered in children are impetigo, burns, acute dermatitis, friction blisters, viral blisters, insect bite reactions, and linear IgA dermatosis.
(4) The breakdown of symptoms were 9 cases of acute pharyngitis, 5 cases of acute tonsillitis, 3 cases of acute bronchitis, and 1 case each of impetigo + purulent rhinitis, cervical lymphadenitis, scarlet fever, and urinary tract infection.
(5) Several cases of severe acute glomerulonephritis on impetigo basis were observed during the study.
(6) The crude annual incidence of bullous impetigo was 0.015 in subjects while they remained HIV-1 negative (10 cases) and 0.045 in early HIV-1 positive subjects (2 cases).
(7) Rokitamycin (RKM) dry syrup, a newly developed macrolide antibiotic, was administered to children with ages between 6 months and 15 years and 10 months suffering from skin and soft tissue infections including 41 cases of impetigo, one case of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) and 2 cases of subcutaneous abscess totalling 44 cases.
(8) Screening S. aureus-isolates for the production of exfoliative toxin (ET) and discrimination between its two known variants (ETA, ETB) by immunodiffusion (ID), isoelectric focusing (IEF) and animal experiment were assessed methodologically using isolates from a patient with bullous impetigo and a patient with Ritter von Rittershain's disease.
(9) Two hundred and forty-three cases of impetigo, which were seen in children in Sydney in the three-year period from July, 1983 to June, 1986, were studied.
(10) Two clinical cases of Hebra's impetigo herpetiformis are described.
(11) We produced a staphylococcal impetigo model by epicutaneous inoculation in mature mice.
(12) One hundred patients with impetigo were prospectively enrolled in a study to determine the current etiology and comparative therapeutic efficacy of two oral antimicrobial agents active against both group A beta-hemolytic streptococci (GABS) and Staphylococcus aureus.
(13) SSSS encompasses a clinical spectrum from bullous impetigo to the widespread exfoliation of the Ritter disease variant of SSSS.
(14) The localized form of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, bullous impetigo, occurs commonly in children but rarely in adults.
(15) can be recognized: folliculitis simplex-like type, tinea barbae-like type and impetigo-like type.
(16) Both agents were considered to be safe and effective medications for treating impetigo and ecthyma.
(17) The clinical response was assessed in 23 cases, 3 with acute rhinitis, 6 with acute purulent tonsillitis, 5 with acute bronchitis, 4 with acute pneumonia, 3 with impetigo, 1 with furunculosis and 1 with periproctal abscess.
(18) Impetigo and folliculitis often develop after trauma.
(19) Two (0.4%) of the patients with uncomplicated impetigo had low complement values, both of whom were infected with nephritogenic strains.
(20) Report on a 20 years old pregnant woman, who fulfilled the criteria of the impetigo herpetiformis as well as later those of the pustular psoriasis Zumbusch in her clinical course.