Erysipeloid skin disease presentation, short brief and nice :)

1. ERYSIPELOID
Bartłomiej Szulc
Group 8

2. What is Erysipeloid?

3. Erysipeloid is an acute bacterial infection of
traumatized skin and other organs.
Erysipeloid is caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae,
which has been known to cause animal and human
infections. Direct contact between meat infected
with E rhusiopathiae and traumatized human skin
results in erysipeloid.
In animals, the organism causes swine erysipelas
and several other diseases in poultry and sheep.

4. • Erysipeloid is an occupational disease.
Humans acquire erysipeloid after
direct contact with infected animals.
• Erysipeloid is more common among farmers, butchers, cooks, homemakers,
and anglers.
• The infection is more likely to occur during the summer or early fall.

5. Prognosis
• Erysipeloid usually is an acute, self-limited infection of the skin that resolves
without consequences.
• Cutaneous forms of erysipeloid usually are self-limited even without
treatment; therefore, skin-limited erysipeloid has a fairly good prognosis with
no long-term sequelae.
• Individuals with the systemic form of erysipeloid, in which organs other
than the skin are involved, may have neurologic, cardiologic, or other
impairments. But it’s very rare

6. Treatment
• The antibiotics of choice for the three forms of erysipeloid are penicillin or
cephalosporin.
• Ceftriaxone proved to have an effect against Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae.
• In patients who are allergic to penicillin, ciprofloxacin alone or erythromycin
in combination with rifampin may be used.

9. Sources
• https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1054170-overview#a6
• http://www.pcds.org.uk/ee/images/made/ee/images/uploads/clinical/Erys
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• https://www.huidziekten.nl/afbeeldingen/erysipeloid-4.jpg
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

10. Sources
• https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1054170-overview#a6
• http://www.pcds.org.uk/ee/images/made/ee/images/uploads/clinical/Erys
ipeloid_2_611_404_70_http:www.pcds.org.ukeeassetsimgwatermark.gif_0_0_
80_r_b_-5_-5_.jpg
• https://www.huidziekten.nl/afbeeldingen/erysipeloid-4.jpg
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/