(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.
Scabies
Definition:
(n.) The itch.
Example Sentences:
(1) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(2) Norwegian scabies is an unusual Sarcoptes scabiei infestation.
(3) We report the occurence of Norwegian scabies in a 13-year-old boy with Bloom's syndrome who had impaired humoral and cell-mediated immunity.
(4) Meanwhile the adoptive mother had contracted scabies.
(5) The effect of three nematicides, aldicarb, fensulfothion, and phenamiphos at four concentrations (1, 5, 25, and 125 ppm) was tested on the growth of five bacteria, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Corynebacterium fascians, Erwinia carotovora, Pseudomonas solanacearum, and Streptomyces scabies and four fungi, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.
(6) Gonorrhoea was found in association with scabies in 9 out of 18 men and in 3 out of 5 women.
(7) Cases 1 and 3 had extensive scabies, which in Case 1 was of the Norwegian type.
(8) Shigellosis, salmonellosis, pediculosis, scabies and campylobacter infections are seen in male homosexuals because of orofecal contacts.
(9) Scabies is endemic in Africa where living conditions make synchronous treatment of every member of the large extended family impossible.
(10) An erythemato-squamous, papulo-crustous, non-itching dermatosis of 4 months duration was finally diagnosed as Norwegian scabies in the immunosuppressed.
(11) Two applications of 1% lindane 1 week apart was the only treatment used without attending to hygiene for scabies and pediculosis.
(12) Scabies is more common than usually thought and often difficult to recognize when the general standard of hygiene is high.
(13) At 10-15 degrees C, females and nymphs survived 1-3 weeks at 97% r.h., 1-2 weeks at 75% r.h. and 5-8 days at 45% r.h. At 20-25 degrees C, survival was significantly reduced but all life-stages survived at least 2 days at 25% r.h. and 5-6 days at 75-100% r.h. Long survival off the host coupled with host-seeking behavior of these mites make it likely that environmental contamination is a source of scabies in domestic and wild mammals, and in humans.
(14) Scabies continues to be an important parasitic disease of humans, and other mammals.
(15) We believe that this highly atypical presenation, which had several features found in Norwegian scabies, was due to muted inflammatory response that permitted a great proliferation of the mites.
(16) This study determined the prevalence of Sarcoptes scabiei in the home environment of 37 confirmed cases of scabies and in five nursing homes with scabietic patients.
(17) The scabies epidemy being observed since 1965, had developed from persistent endemic centres and pursues continuous the cyclic course of the scabies humanis in periods of 15 to 20 years.
(18) Three elk with severe scabies had an estimated 0.6 x 10(6), 3.8 x 10(6) and 6.5 x 10(6) mites, respectively.
(19) In the Ayurvedha and Sidha system of medicine (Indian system of medicine) Azadirachta indica ADR ('Neem') and Curcuma longa ('Turmeric') has been used for healing chronic ulcers and scabies.
(20) The diagnosis and management of outbreaks of scabies in health care facilities may be difficult.