An update on cutaneous infections

The spectrum of infectious diseases with potential skin involvement, either primary or secondary to systemic disease, is vast. Unusual host inflammatory responses may be elicited by certain pathogens, including reactions with an inherent capacity for misdiagnosis as neoplasia. Current, emerging, re-emerging and/or recently recognized pathogens or infections of major significance include carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections, Ebola virus disease, measles, Mycobacterium lepromatosis as a second aetiological agent of leprosy, and Emergomyces africanus infection among those living with HIV/AIDS.

Source: Diagnostic Histopathology - January 13, 2020 Category: Pathology Authors: Wayne Grayson Tags: Mini-symposium: Dermatopathology Source Type: research