Cellulitis

Preseptal cellulitis

Orbital cellulitis

Infected Bite Wounds

Preseptal and Orbital Cellulitis

Cellulitis Dx Often Incorrect

MIAMI BEACH (MedPage Today) -- Three-fourths of cellulitis diagnoses proved to be other skin disorders mimicking cellulitis, a retrospective review at four large medical centers showed.

Health Tip: Protect Kids From Mosquito Bites

-- Mosquito bites can transmit dangerous germs, such as the bug that causes West Nile virus. That's why bite prevention is so important. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers these preventive sugg...

Powerful new drug to treat malaria

A powerful new drug to treat malaria - the invention of a University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy researcher -- will help take the bite out of malaria. In the United States, a mosqui...

Dermatology Consults Halt Cellulitis Misdiagnoses

With no significant demographic or risk-factor differences to distinguish true cellulitis from mimickers, a clinical call by dermatologists is crucial. Medscape Medical News

Mosquito genetic complexity may take a bite out of efforts to control malaria

(Genetics Society of America) A team of scientists from West Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom found that the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, which was thought to be splitting into two com...

Health Tip: When an Animal Bite Becomes Infected

-- When Fido or Fluffy bite someone, it poses risks of nerve and tendon damage and, more often, infection. The chances of infection from a cat bite is much higher than that of a dog bite, the American...

Treat all cases of cellulitis with anti-staphylococcal antibiotics

In their clinical review of the management and treatment of cellulitis Phoenix and colleagues recommend different treatment on the basis of streptococcal and staphylococcal infection.1 However,......

ChAd63-MVA–vectored Blood-stage Malaria Vaccines Targeting MSP1 and AMA1: Assessment of Efficacy Against Mosquito Bite Challenge in Humans

Case 31-2010: a 29-year-old woman with Fever after a cat bite.

Case 31-2010: A 29-Year-Old Woman with Fever after a Cat Bite Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital, N Engl J Med 2010;363:1560-1568. In the second paragraph of the Cellulitis subsection...

Penicillin to prevent recurrent leg cellulitis.

Cellulitis of the leg is a common bacterial infection of the skin and underlying tissue. We compared prophylactic low-dose penicillin with placebo for the prevention of recurrent cellulitis.

Host immune response to mosquito-transmitted chikungunya virus differs from that elicited by needle inoculated virus.

BACKGROUND: Mosquito-borne diseases are a worldwide public health threat. Mosquitoes transmit viruses or parasites during feeding, along with salivary proteins that modulate host responses to facilita...

Eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells' syndrome) and an insect bite-like reaction in a patient with non-Hodgkin B cell lymphoma.

EOSINOPHILIC CELLULITIS AND EOSINOPHILIC CELLULITIS (WELLS' SYNDROME).