📟 A farmer from the Dominican Republic is here in the US visiting family & presents with a swollen foot that has been progressing over the past 8 years
📸 of his R foot along with biopsy of lesion
❓What is the mostly likely organism?
Answer: Madurella mycetomatis
🎙Cutaneous Fungal/Mold Infections:
🚨Madurella mycetomatis: Eumycetoma or “Madura foot”
🔎- traumatic inoculation ➡️ chronic nodular lesions w/ sinus tracts w/ macroscopic grains ➡️ 🦴 Evolve over yrs
🔬- grain w/ numerous hyphae
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This is fungal
Derm… ☠️ Let’s break it down starting with viral exanthems. Follow the 🧶
🚨Coxsackievirus:
1️⃣✋🏼,🦶🏼, & mouth disease - Coxsackie A > Coxsackie B or EV71
🔎 - 😣 ulcerative lesions on hard palate, 👅, buccal mucosa ➡️ vesicular rash on 🤲🏼 &🦶🏼
2️⃣ Atypical HFMD
🔎- vesiculobullous rash or crusted papules (Gianotti-Crosti syndrome). Associated with skin and 💅🏼 peeling. At sites of atopic eczema (eczema coxsackium)
Post-exposure prophylaxis. As with all things, timing maters 😷
1️⃣ HAV:
Indications - close contacts, child care & school contacts, food handlers
⏲ 2 weeks - 💉
👉🏼 + Ig if > 60 YO or immunocompromised
⏲ 28 days - 💉
👉🏼 + Ig if chronic liver disease
or Hep B/C infection
⏲ 8 weeks - 💉 if there are > 1 close contacts in 🏠
2️⃣ HBV:
Indications - percutaneous or mucosal exposure, sex or needling sharing contact, victim of sexual assault
⏲- within 24 hrs, up to 7 days