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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A pyogenic skin disease.

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  • noun medicine An infection of the skin by pyogenic bacteria.

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Examples

  • I can also cause cellulitis, rashes, pyoderma yellow pustules, gangrene, rheumatic fever and toxic shock.

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  • I can also cause cellulitis, rashes, pyoderma yellow pustules, gangrene, rheumatic fever and toxic shock.

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  • Long-term antibiotic therapy is needed for pyoderma and it is not unusual to treat these patients for months at a time.

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  • In most cases, pyoderma also needs to be addressed topically with shampoo therapy.

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  • Treatment of pyoderma gangrenosum involves long-term immunosuppression.

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  • The erythema on the patient's foot was psoriasis. pyoderma gangrenosum • Same lesion close up.

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  • Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a Gram-positive bacterial pathogen responsible for a wide variety of diseases ranging from self-limiting generally benign conditions such as streptopcoccal pharyngitis and pyoderma to invasive diseases including necrotising fasciitis.

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  • The World Health Organization estimates that at least 111 million children in the world suffer from skin sores (pyoderma) and that many of these children also have scabies.

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  • Treatment of pyoderma gangrenosum involves long-term immunosuppression.

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  • Whipple's Disease • Histology of the duodenal biopsy showing clubbed epithelial villi with inflammatory infiltrate including numerous foamy macrophages (haemtoxylin-eosin stain, magnification × 250) pyoderma gangrenosum • Ulcerative lesion of pyoderma gangrenosum measuring 6.0 x 4.0 cm on the right medial shin of a 34-year-old woman with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

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