Mycetoma is a chronic granulomatous infection of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues caused by filamentous bacteria (actinomycetoma) or fungi (eumycetoma). The most common site the foot, followed hand, but sometimes other body parts may also be infected. patients present with painless hard swelling mass, multiple sinuses, pathognomonic discharge grains. A 42-year-old male patient, presented pain...

conclusions there was a moderate level of knowledge, practices, perceives and beliefs in nurses and students for the importance of hand hygiene. compliance with the importance of hand hygiene in infection control is complex, and perceptual factors concerning hand hygiene, in addition to an individual’s knowledge could affect the behaviors related to hand hygiene compliance. background the curre...

BACKGROUND Sweet's syndrome, originally described as an acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, belongs to a class of skin lesions that histologically have intense epidermal and/or dermal inflammatory infiltrate of neutrophils without evidence of infection or vasculitis. Skin lesions of Sweet's syndrome most commonly present on the face, trunk, upper extremities, and hands. The presenting lesion...

BACKGROUND Good hand hygiene has for many years been considered to be the most important measure that can be applied to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Continuous emphasis on this intervention has lead to the widespread opinion that HAI rates can be greatly reduced by increased hand hygiene compliance alone. However, this assumes that the effectiveness of hand hygie...

of drying the hands was 23 s, hence longer than the duration of the hand rub. To shorten the standardized technique of hand rubbing from 6 to 5 or 4 steps and decreasing the number of repetitions from 5 to 3 times per step had only small effects, but with the 4-step sequence the bacterial reduction was less pronounced such that this procedure cannot be considered equivalent to the standard. Con...