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Disseminated Gonococcal Infection - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Bacteremic spread of the Gram-negative diplococci Neisseria gonorrhoeae. History
Laboratory Diagnosis ... Laboratory testing of skin ... Arthritis-Dermatitis ... Tenosynovitis • Dermatitis ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
A quick infographic on various pearls about atopic dermatitis, a disease with an increasing burden on
, inflammatory skin ... receptors in the skin ... medications #treatment #diagnosis ... and Subsequent Skin ... D, Galloway G, Murray
Waterborne Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Infections that can be acquired from fresh water, brackish water, sea
- Differential Diagnosis ... Blooms (HABs) Skin ... • Cercarial dermatitis ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #InfectiousDiseases
Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections

 • Mycobacterium abscessus - Is the most pathogenic and the most likely
Primary skin and ... wound infections keratitis ... Mycobacterium #diagnosis ... #differential #infectiousdiseases
Purpura - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Non-blanchable, dark red to purple, hemorrhagic skin lesions that result from leakage
- Differential Diagnosis ... purple, hemorrhagic skin ... Pigmented Purpuric Dermatosis ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #hematology #rheumatology
Paraproteinemias

Entities That Can Feature A Monoclonal Protein/M Component:
• MM
• WM
• MGUS
• MGCS
• MGRS
• Splenic Marginal Zone
Alpha & Mu) Skin ... • Neutrophilic dermatosis ... thrombosis+Pulm HTN+skin ... Subcorneal pustular dermatosis ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- Differential Diagnosis ... lesions-interstitial keratitis ... Differential Diagnosis ... #differential #diagnosis ... #rheumatology #
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
- Differential Diagnosis ... Vasculitis Differential Diagnosis ... - interstitial keratitis ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Rheumatology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
pulmonary symptoms • Rheumatologic ... osteomyelitis or skin ... organism into the skin ... Mouth, throat, skin ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases
Amebiasis - Acanthamoeba Life Cycle
1) Cysts
2) Trophozoite
3) Mitosis
4) Amebae (cysts and trophozoites) can enter humans in
Results in severe keratitis ... ulcerated or broken skin ... disseminated disease or skin ... Acanthamoeba #LifeCycle #diagnosis ... pathophysiology #infectiousdiseases