Skin Infections
Your skin helps protect you from germs, but sometimes it can get infected by them. Some common types of skin infections are
- Bacterial: Cellulitis and impetigo. Staphylococcal infections can also affect the skin.
- Viral: Shingles, warts, and herpes simplex
- Fungal: Athlete's foot and yeast infections
Your skin can also get parasites, such as head lice and scabies.
Treatment of skin infections depends on the cause.
Your Medical Guide
- Actinomycosis
- Blastomycosis
- Boils
- Carbuncle
- Cutaneous candidiasis
- Ecthyma
- Erysipelas
- Erythema multiforme
- Erythema nodosum
- Erythrasma
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Gram stain of skin lesion
Granuloma inguinale
Intertrigo
Molluscum contagiosum
Necrotizing soft tissue infection
Nikolsky's sign
Paronychia
Scalded skin syndrome
Skin culture
Skin lesion aspiration
Skin lesion biopsy
Skin lesion KOH exam
Skin lesion of blastomycosis
Skin lesion of coccidioidomycosis
Skin lesion of histoplasmosis
Sporotrichosis
Swimming pool granuloma
Wood's lamp examination
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Gram stain of skin lesion