Dermatology Guide - Infective Conditions

Infective Conditions of the Skin

Bacterial Infections of the Skin

• Abscess, furuncle and carbuncle

• Impetigo, ecthyma

• Erythrasma

• Erysipeloid

• Pitted keratolysis

Systemic Bacterial Infections with Skin Signs

• Infective endocarditis

• Gram-positive infections (toxic shock syndrome, staphylcoccal scalded skin syndrome, scarlet fever, cellulitis, erysipelas)

• Gram-negative infections (meningococcaemia, cat-scratch disease, ecthyma gangrenosum and cutaneous pseudomonas aeruginosa infections)

• Mycobacterial infections (leprosy, cutaneus tuberculosis, cutaneous atypical mycobacterial infections)

• Lyme borreliosis

Fungal Infections of the Skin, Hair and Nails

• Tinea infections of the skin (tinea pedis, tinea manuum, tinea cruris, tinea corporis, tinea facialis)

• Tinea infections of the scalp, beard baring skin (tinea capitis, tinea barbae)

• Onychomycosis and tinea unguium

• Pityriasis versicolor

• Candidiasis

Systemic Fungal Infections

• Mycetoma

• Chromoblastomycosis

• Sporotrichosis

• Histoplasmosis

• Disseminated cryptococcosis

• Disseminated coccidioidomycosis

Viral Infections

• Cutaneous viral infections (molluscum contagiosum, human papillomavirus infections)

• Systemic viral infections (rubella, measles, hand foot and mouth disease, varicella zoster (chicken pox, herpes zoster), herpes simplex virus infections, kawasaki's disease, exanthema subitum, erythema infectiosum)

Insect Bites and Infestations

• Scabies, cutaneous larva migrans, cutaneous reaction to bedbug bites and flea bites, myiasis, pediculosis capitis and pubis

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• Neisseria gonorrhoeae, syphilis, chancroid, donovanosis, lymphogranuloma venerum, herpes simplex virus infection, human papillomavirus infection,

• Mucosal Manifestation of HIV (eosinophilic folliculitis, Kaposi's sarcoma, oral hairy leukoplakia, bacillary angiomatosis, herpes simplex virus infection, varicella zoster infection)