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Emerging Bacterial Infections

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Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin

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Abstract

Increased international travel, political crises, sociodemographic pressures, and climate change have contributed to human exposure to bacterial pathogens once uncommon and endemically isolated. The rapid increase in incidence and spread of emerging bacterial infections underlines the need for increased clinical awareness of emerging infections. Many of these infections lack documentation in the dermatology literature, with delayed diagnosis and treatment and significant mortality and morbidity among infected individuals. This chapter aims to review the cutaneous and non-cutaneous manifestations of emerging bacterial infections, to provide concise diagnostic modalities, and to recommend management options.

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  • 02 March 2022

    S. K. Tyring et al. (eds.), Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin, Updates in Clinical Dermatology,

Abbreviations

ACA:

Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans

CDC:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

EID:

Emerging infectious disease

ELISA:

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

EM:

Erythema migrans

PCR:

Polymerase chain reaction

RMSF:

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

TIBOLA:

Tick-borne lymphadenopathy

TMP-SMZ:

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole

VAP:

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

WHO:

World Health Organization

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  1. McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Crystal E. Nwannunu

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Stephen K. Tyring

  2. Arlington Center for Dermatology, Arlington, TX, USA

    Stephen Andrew Moore

  3. Division of Dermatology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Angela Yen Moore

  4. Immunology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Omar Lupi

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Nwannunu, C.E. (2021). Emerging Bacterial Infections. In: Tyring, S.K., Moore, S.A., Moore, A.Y., Lupi, O. (eds) Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin. Updates in Clinical Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68321-4_2

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