Three new provisional types of Group A streptococci have been identified among strains isolated from skin infections of American Indian children. A previously established type, Type 41, was also recognized among the pyoderma strains. Most of the skin streptococci with T-agglutination pattern 3/13/B3264 could be identified as Type 41 or as one of two new provisional types, Schoenborn (Type 52) a...

Neurotrophins (NTs) belong to a family of structurally and functionally related proteins that, depending on the tissue context and the receptors involved, promote neuronal cell survival and differentiation or cell death. NTs also exert important functions in other organs besides the nervous system, including the skin. The presence in the skin of diverse cell types which are able to secrete and/...

BACKGROUND The biological recovery of human skin allografts is the gold standard for preservation in Skin Banks. However, there is no worldwide consensus about specific allocation criteria for preserved human skin allografts with living cells. A report is presented on the results of 5 years of experience of using human skin allografts in burned patient in the Skin and Tissue Bank at the "Instit...

Editor, The importance of accurate histopathological assessment of type of leprosy with the help of skin biopsy is emphasized by the widespread poor performance of slit skin smears (SSS). Many workers have reported ®nding AFB more frequently in skin biopsies compared with slit skin smears in all types of leprosy. However, the presence of AFB in skin biopsy has been assigned no role in grading o...

Skin cancers are often misdiagnosed or diagnosed late in skin of color (Fitzpatrick types 4-6) resulting increased morbidity and mortality. Rare such as Eccrine Porocarcinoma (EPC), which accounts for 0.005% to 0.01% all epidermal neoplasms, even less likely be accurately color. is Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC), melanoma, seborrheic keratosis. The paucity case report...

introduction: intense pulsed light (ipl) has long been used for skin rejuvenation. photo rejuvenation with red light (with or without photo sensitizer) is a newer noninvasive way for this purpose; but, until now few comparative studies between these modalities have been performed . the aim of this study was to compare efficacy, adverse effects, and compliance of intense pulsed light rejuvenatio...

Numerous studies have explored the altered transcriptional landscape associated with skin diseases to understand the nature of these disorders. However, data interpretation represents a significant challenge due to a lack of good maker sets for many of the specialized cell types that make up this tissue, whose composition may fundamentally alter during disease. Here we have sought to derive exp...

DNA from epidermodysplasia verruciformis-related human papillomavirus (EV-HPV) types is frequently found in nonmelanoma skin cancer (squamous and basal cell carcinoma). Epidemiological studies that investigate the relation between EV-HPV infection and nonmelanoma skin cancer are scarce. We designed a case-control study in which we looked for HPV infection in 540 cases with a history of skin can...