phenylephrine-hydrochloride and Skin-Diseases--Infectious

Topics: Acid-Base Equilibrium; Agglutinins; Animals; Antibody Formation; Bacterial Infections; Blood Bactericidal Activity; Blood Glucose; Body Weight; Diabetes Complications; Diabetes Mellitus; Erythrasma; Glucose Tolerance Test; Humans; Ketones; Leprosy; Leukocytosis; Nose; Phagocytosis; Rats; Skin; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Staphylococcal Infections; Urinary Tract Infections

Topics: Antifungal Agents; Cryptococcosis; Cryptococcus neoformans; Diagnosis, Differential; Humans; Hydroxychloroquine; Male; Mycoses; Nose; Pathology, Molecular; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Young Adult

Infective dermatitis associated with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1; IDH) is a chronic recurrent eczema affecting HTLV-1-infected children. The epidemiological and dermatological characteristics of IDH are described, and their principal diagnostic criteria are reevaluated.. Forty-two patients were included: 40 patients serologically positive for HTLV-1 and 2 seronegative patients who tested positive in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays.. The mean age at onset of the disease was 2.6 ± 2.4 years (range, 2 months-11 years). The mean duration of breast-feeding was 24.2 months. The lesions were erythematous, scaly, and crusted, always affecting the scalp and retroauricular regions. Crusting of the nostrils was observed in 64.3% of the patients. Of the 36 patients followed up, 23 had the active disease. The age at which IDH disappeared in the others was 10-20 years.. The onset of IDH may occur earlier than reported in the literature. The scalp and retroauricular regions are always affected, and lesions are invariably present in ≥3 areas. Crusting of the nostrils cannot be considered an obligatory factor for the diagnosis of IDH. The recurring nature of IDH was a characteristic found in all cases. Patients with classic IDH lesions who are serologically negative should be investigated by PCR. Therefore, the indispensable criteria for diagnosis are (1) presence of erythematous-scaly, exudative, and crusted lesions involving ≥3 areas, including the scalp and retroauricular regions; (2) recurring nature of the lesions; and (3) a finding of HTLV-1 infection by serology or molecular biology.

Topics: Adolescent; Brazil; Child; Child, Preschool; Clinical Laboratory Techniques; Eczema; Female; HTLV-I Infections; Human T-lymphotropic virus 1; Humans; Infant; Male; Neck; Nose; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Recurrence; Scalp; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Virology

Topics: Animals; Chiroptera; Mycoses; Nose; Skin Diseases, Infectious; United Kingdom

A total of 354 (8%) out of 4395 primary school pupils located in seven Lagos primary schools were positive for beta-haemolytic streptococci (BHS). Eighty-three (23%), 99 (28%) and 113 (32%) of the respiratory tract isolates and 25 (53%), 14 (30%) and seven (15%) of the skin-lesion isolates were identified as belonging to Lancefield groups A, C and G respectively. Prevalence rate of BHS in a rural school was different from that in urban schools.

Topics: Carrier State; Child; Humans; Nigeria; Nose; Pharynx; Prevalence; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Streptococcal Infections; Streptococcus; Urban Population

Topics: Collagen Diseases; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Humans; Male; Nose; Rhinophyma; Rosacea; Skin Diseases; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Skin Manifestations

A strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to as many as nine distinct antibiotics has shown unusally high virulence as indicated by its ability to cause an epidemic of furunculosis amongst hospital nurses.

Topics: Bacteriophage Typing; Burns; Cross Infection; Disease Outbreaks; Drug Resistance, Microbial; Female; Furunculosis; Humans; Nose; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Staphylococcal Infections; Staphylococcus; Virulence

Reports of toxicity from the routine bathing of newborn infants with hexachlorophene resulted in discontinuing its use in the newborn nurseries of the Ottawa Civic Hospital, only to be followed by an outbreak of skin infections. As a result, a controlled trial of bathing newborn babies with either Lactacyd or pHisoHex was begun. The efficacy of the soaps was evaluated by comparing the colonization of the nose and umbilical cords of 158 pHisoHex-washed babies and 156 Lactacyd-washed babies on the day of discharge from hospital. The gram-negative and gram-positive bacterial flora of nose and cord of infants washed with pHisoHex and Lactacyd were identical in frequency and distribution.

Topics: Antisepsis; Bacteria; Drug Combinations; Hexachlorophene; Humans; Immune Sera; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Newborn, Diseases; Lactates; Lactic Acid; Nose; Skin; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Soaps; Staphylococcus; Umbilical Cord

Topics: Bacteria; Bacterial Infections; Child; Child, Preschool; Color; Haemophilus influenzae; Humans; Infant; Nasal Mucosa; Nose; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Staphylococcus; Streptococcus; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Time Factors; Viscosity

Topics: Animals; Cats; Child; Disease Vectors; Humans; Lymphatic Diseases; Male; Nocardia Infections; Nose; Respiratory Hypersensitivity; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Skin Tests; Tuberculin Test

The antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Bristol from primary skin sepsis and nasal carriers outside hospital was recorded between 1949 and 1969. The proportion of penicillinase-forming strains rose to about 60% but resistance to other antibiotics remained un-common except for a peak about 1957, due to the spread of multiresistant phage-type 80 staphylococci. Reasons are discussed for the failure of other multiresistant staphylococci to increase outside hospital.Recently isolated strains from inside and outside hospital were tested with sulphonamide and trimethoprim. All were sensitive to trimethoprim but 5% of non-hospital strains and 40% of hospital strains were resistant to sulphonamide. It is suggested that sulphonamide-resistant staphylococcal infections should not be treated with sulphonamide-trimethoprim mixtures because of the risk of breeding trimethoprim-resistant strains.

Topics: Carrier State; Drug Resistance, Microbial; Folic Acid Antagonists; Humans; Nose; Pyrimidines; Skin Diseases, Infectious; Staphylococcus; Sulfonamides; Time Factors

Topics: Cheek; Child, Preschool; Herpes Zoster; Humans; Lip; Male; Maxillary Nerve; Nose; Skin Diseases, Infectious