Wound Management News

White & Blue Lion has voluntarily recalled all lots of its tattoo inks and tattoo needles due to pathogenic bacterial contamination.

Researchers identified four principal skin patterns of manifestation for parvovirus B19: exanthema, acral gloves-and-socks, periflexural and vasculitis, according to a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Although posaconazole therapy demonstrated antitrypanosomal activity in the treatment of Chagas’ disease, patients experienced more treatment failure during follow-up than when traditional benznidazole therapy was used.

Most skin and soft tissue infections are minor and heal on their own or are easily treated without antibiotics, according to new practices guidelines published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Home care nurses had difficulty achieving desired subbandage pressure when treating patients with venous leg ulcers, resulting in inadequate compression therapy, according to a study.

Deep cutaneous fungal infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of nonspecific cutaneous lesions with aligning histopathology regardless of a negative skin tissue culture, according to researchers.

Efficacy of once-weekly intravenous dalbavancin was comparable to twice-daily intravenous vancomycin for the treatment of acute bacterial skin infections, according to recent trial results.

A single dose of oritavancin was noninferior to a regimen of twice-daily vancomycin given for 7 to 10 days in treating acute bacterial skin infections, according to data from the SOLO I trial.

MRSA rates varied significantly among academic medical centers in California, Illinois, New York and North Carolina, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Healio.com/Dermatology reports on five topical products used for the treatment of common skin infections.