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Contact Bacterial Diseases
- Leprosy
- Staphylococcal Skin Diseases
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Bacterial Conjuctivitis (Pinkeye)
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Leprosy
- Mycobacterium leprae
- acid-fast rod
- Spread by multiple skin contacts or by droplet inhalation
- Long incubation period of 3-6 years
- Patientsexperience disfiguring of the skin and bones due to the developmentof lepromas (lepromatous leprosy)
- -or -
- by the loss of pain sensation due to nerve damage (tuberculoid leprosy)
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Staphylococcal Skin Diseases
- They can initiate disease if they penetrate skin or mucous membranes
- Staphylococcus aureus
- grape like cluster of Gram + cocci
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Staphylococcal Skin Diseases: Key characteristic
- formation of abscess (pus-filled lesion)
- boil- pimple
- carbuncle- deeper abscess when staph work their way down below skin
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Scalded skin syndrome
- seen in infants skin becomes red, wrinkled and tender and will peel off
- Due to exotoxin Impetigo contagiosum - infection is more superficial and involves patches of epidermis just below the outer skin
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Staphylococcal Skin Diseases- additional info
- Streptococcus pyogenes may also be a cause
- Problem with multidrug resistant strains
- Trivial boil may lead to septicemia which can lead to
- endocarditis, meningitis, pneumonia or nephritis
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Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Rapidly rising fever, vomiting and diarrhea progressing to sore throat and rash.
- A sudden dropin blood pressure can occur leading to shock and death.
- Associatedwith use of tampons
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Bacterial Conjuctivitis (Pinkeye)
- Haemophilus aegyptius
- When infected, conjunctiva becomes inflammed, causing eye to appear pink.
- Highly contagious.
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