Dermatology News

Although podoconiosis — otherwise known as nonfilarial elephantiasis, or ”mossy foot” — is a common and preventable disease in areas of Ethiopia where it is endemic, children from families genetically predisposed to the disease reported inaccurate beliefs regarding its risk factors and prevention.

NEW ORLEANS — Taksta was noninferior to Zyvox as an oral treatment for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, or ABSSSIs, including MRSA, according to phase 3 data presented here.

NEW ORLEANS — Data from two phase 3 trials demonstrated that IV and oral Baxdela had similar safety and efficacy profiles against acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, or ABSSSIs, compared with a combination regimen of vancomycin and aztreonam among patients with a history of infectious hepatitis.

Although the incidence of syphilis has been rising in the United States, dermatologists may infrequently diagnose the disease, according to a retrospective review of cases in Rhode Island published in JAMA Dermatology.

Treatment of skin infections with the antibiotic omadacycline was noninferior to Zyvox in a phase 3 study, researchers said at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Vienna.

Two cost-benefit analyses presented at the annual meeting of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Vienna reported the potential of cost savings of IV-to-oral omadacycline compared with the current standard of care for patients with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infection.

Climate change is expected to increase the risk for the spread of numerous types of infectious diseases — including Lyme disease, Zika, diarrheal diseases and more — according to researchers.

The growing problem of antibiotic resistance threatens the successful prevention and treatment of an increasing range of infections. This mounting public health concern has led some hospitals to implement antimicrobial stewardship programs and other infection control initiatives, some with impressive results.

Patients with diabetes had microbiological etiologies in complicated skin and skin structure infections similar to that of patients without diabetes, according to findings published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

For years, people in a remote high-altitude area of Western Uganda suffered from bouts of itching, pain and swelling in their lower limbs and feet with no explanation and no available treatment. After an apparent sudden outbreak of potentially debilitating elephantiasis struck in the region in 2015, local health officials ruled out the usual cause — parasitic filarial worms — as an explanation. Eventually, investigators from the Ugandan Ministry of Health, WHO and the CDC solved both mysteries after interviewing dozens of patients from Kamwenge District and learning they were predominantly farmers who regularly worked barefoot.