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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.
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- Skin Rashes and Other Changes(American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Also available in Spanish
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Overviews
- Bacterial Skin Infections(Merck & Co., Inc.)
- Fungal Skin Infections(Merck & Co., Inc.)
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Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Fungal Tests(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Skin Rashes and Other Changes(American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Also available in Spanish
- Wood's Lamp Examination(Logical Images)
- Wound and Skin Infections Tests(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
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Specific Conditions
- Blastomycosis(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Boils(American Osteopathic College of Dermatology)
- Boils and Carbuncles(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Cutaneous Larva Migrans(American Osteopathic College of Dermatology)
- Erysipelas(American Osteopathic College of Dermatology)
- Erythema Nodosum(American Osteopathic College of Dermatology)
- Granuloma Inguinale(Merck & Co., Inc.)
- Group A Streptococcal (GAS) Disease(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Intertrigo(American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Also available in Spanish
- Molluscum (Molluscum Contagiosum)(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Molluscum Contagiosum(American Academy of Dermatology)
- Necrotizing Skin Infections(Merck & Co., Inc.)
- Sporotrichosis(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Tinea Versicolor(American Academy of Dermatology)
- Tinea Versicolor(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
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Related Issues
- Molluscum (and HIV)(New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center)
- Also available in Spanish
- River Blindness(Lighthouse International)
- Swimming Pools and Molluscum Contagiosum(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Tropical Travel and Skin Infections(American Academy of Dermatology)
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Pictures & Photographs
- Boils (Furunculosis)(Logical Images)
- Erythema Nodosum(Logical Images)
- Erythrasma(Logical Images)
- Intertrigo(Logical Images)
- Molluscum Contagiosum(Logical Images)
- Tinea Versicolor(Logical Images)
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Clinical Trials
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Molluscum Contagiosum(National Institutes of Health)
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Skin Diseases, Infectious(National Institutes of Health)
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Molluscum Contagiosum
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Journal Articles
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
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Directories
- Find a Dermatologist(American Academy of Dermatology)
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Organizations
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Children
- Molluscum Contagiosum(American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus)
- Molluscum Contagiosum(Nemours Foundation)
- Skin Infections(Nemours Foundation)
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Teenagers
- Cuts, Scratches, and Scrapes(Nemours Foundation)
- Molluscum Contagiosum(Children's Hospital Boston)
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Patient Handouts
- Blastomycosis
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- Boils
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- Carbuncle
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- Cutaneous candidiasis
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- Donovanosis (granuloma inguinale)
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- Ecthyma
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- Erysipelas
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- Erythrasma
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- Molluscum contagiosum
- Also available in Spanish
- Necrotizing soft tissue infection
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- Scalded skin syndrome
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- Skin lesion biopsy
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- Tinea versicolor
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You may also be interested in these related encyclopedia pages:
MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
- Actinomycosis
- Blastomycosis
- Boils
- Carbuncle
- Cutaneous candidiasis
- Donovanosis (granuloma inguinale)
- Ecthyma
- Erysipelas
- Erythema multiforme
- Erythema nodosum
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Erythrasma
Gram stain of skin lesion
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
Tinea versicolor
Wood's lamp examination
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Erythrasma
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