background: mycobacterium marinum infection has a worldwide distribution and the organism occupies many aquatic environments. infections in human consist of nodular cutaneous lesions that can progress to tenosynovitis, arthritis, and osteomyelitis. case presentation: a 27-year-old man was presented with a history of swelling and exudative erythematous lesions and pustules of the right forearm. ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Arthropods are a significant cause of human skin lesions and infections, especially in Latin America. This review summarizes recent articles on the cutaneous manifestations of arthropod-borne diseases, with an emphasis on those diseases causing direct skin damage but also considering those systemic diseases with cutaneous manifestations. RECENT FINDINGS Studies have shown a ...

background:   methicillin-resistant   staphylococcus   aureus  (mrsa)   is  a major cause of nosocomial and community infections that are becoming increasingly difficult to combat, because of emerging resistance to all classes of antibiotics. moreover panton-valentine  leukocidin (pvl) is an important virulence factor in s. aureus and causes white blood cell destruction, necrosis and  accelerat...

Background: Mucocutaneous manifestations may occur inevery stage of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.Some of them may be the first presentations. In this study, weevaluated the prevalence of dermatologic manifestations as thefirst presentations of HIV/AIDS in 25 Iranian patients.Method: In a cross sectional study, we evaluated 25 new casesof HIV infection whose HIV infections were d...

background cutaneous leishmaniasis is an endemic infectious disease in iran caused by flagellated protozoa. the most common cause of cutaneous leishmaniasis is l. major. we report a case of disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis after renal transplantation. a 50-year old man received renal transplantation three months ago for diabetes mellitus-associated renal failure. before renal transplantatio...

opportunistic infections due to free-living amoebae such as granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (gae), cutaneous acanthamoebiasis and disseminated infections could be the causative agent of mortality in people living with hiv/aids. in this study, we report the occurrence of the acanthamoeba belonging to the t4 genotype isolated from nasal and oral swabs of a 15 -yr-old man with hiv infection. hi...

the opportunistic mould aspergillus is a ubiquitous fungus. diseases caused by aspergillus species are most commonly caused by aspergillus fumigatus. the spectrum of disease caused by aspergillus is dependent on the health of the immune system. the ranges of illnesses individuals acquire are aspergilloma, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, invasive aspergillosis, sinusitis, otomycosis, oc...

Cutaneous metastases of prostate cancer are a rare entity and mimic many other common cutaneous conditions such as cellulitis, zosteriform lesions, others, making it easy to misdiagnose. Recognition this condition is vital prevent delays in treatment, lesions usually appear late stages the disease associated with high fatality rate. Here we describe case 64-year-old man history diffuse metastat...