Dermatology News

Hotel pools are a frequent source of recreational waterborne disease, causing 32% of all swimming-related disease outbreaks in the United States, according to new research published today by the CDC.

Diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease affecting mainly children. The primary immunization of three doses of the diphtheria toxoid in infancy is routine throughout the world, except where it isn’t. With proper childhood immunization and boosters, there should be little or no diphtheria. Although it is possible for immunized people to develop diphtheria, the disease is much less severe. In the unimmunized population, the mortality rate is 5% to 10%, and deaths occur mainly in the very young and the very old.

A 2-year-old male presents with a 2-day history of progressive erythema and painful swelling of the apex of his nose. Initially, he complained of only pain with the erythema, but by the second day, he had some epistaxis, raising his parent’s concern. He was then taken to his primary provider, who immediately sent him to the children’s hospital ED for evaluation.

A single round of total community treatment with azithromycin in a subdistrict of Ghana endemic for yaws was effective in reducing the prevalence of this disease 12 months after treatment, according to study results published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

An otherwise healthy 8-year-old girl presented to clinic with a 3-week history of a growing red bump on her back. She reported that it bled one time after traumatizing the area.

A 36-week gestation male newborn is delivered by emergency cesarean section because of decreased fetal movements. Pregnancy was also complicated by the mother having a positive group B streptococcal screen and taking Zoloft for depression.

Study findings suggest that patients being treated for Buruli ulcer benefit from delaying the decision of whether to undergo excision surgery, once the main treatment option for the often debilitating neglected tropical disease, researchers said.

A 15-mg/kg dose of AmBisome given over 15 days in five biweekly infusions was safe and effective against post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis, or PKDL, a condition in which Leishmania parasites persist despite successful visceral leishmaniasis treatment, according to researchers.

Primary care pediatricians who utilized an educational program and an electronic medical record ordering tool at the same time were more likely to follow clinical guidelines on acne, according to findings presented at the American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting.

A Best Practice Advisory tool that is part of the EPIC electronic health record system failed to change most primary care physician behaviors when it came to prescribing acne treatments, according to findings presented at the society’s annual meeting.