Categories: Disorder
Type:
Name:
Importance- to Body:
Cutaneous Infection
Distribution- in Body:
Skin, Papulovesicular folliculitis in adults and hot-foot syndrome with painful erythematous plantar nodules in children and adolescents
Epidemiology: Gram-negative rod
Food Sources:
None Listed
Environmental/Geographic Sources:
Associated with hot tubs, loofah sponges, and wetsuits
Diagonosis:
Microbiologic cultures, clinical diagnosis
Treatment:
Resolves spontaneously without treatment
Supplemental information:
Source: Cutaneous Manifestations Of Waterborne Infections by: Lucinda Elko, MD, RPh, Keith Rosenbach, MD, PhD*, and John Sinnott, MD