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Occupational Skin Infections

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“Occupational skin infections” are rarely life-threatening, but they can be capacitating, lead to sick certificates, and cause considerable costs. Occupational skin infections are caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites. One needs to distinguish primary skin infections from skin infections secondary to pre-existing occupational dermatoses or pre-damaged skin and colonization of skin or mucous membranes with multiresistant or potentially hazardous infectious agents in context of occupational activity. When an occupational skin infection is suspected, a detailed history needs to be taken, including information of the workplace and its conditions. This is important to understand the causal relation between the occupational situation and the infection.

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    Burkhard Kreft & Cord Sunderkötter

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Swen Malte John

  2. Department of Dermato-allergology, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark

    Jeanne Duus Johansen

  3. Dept. of Dermatology and Allergology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Thomas Rustemeyer

  4. Dept. of Dermatology and Allergology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany

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  5. Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Kreft, B., Sunderkötter, C. (2019). Occupational Skin Infections. In: John, S., Johansen, J., Rustemeyer, T., Elsner, P., Maibach, H. (eds) Kanerva’s Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40221-5_213-1

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