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Erysipeloid
Occupational Disease Erysipeloid
Erysipeloid Category Infection, Occupational
Erysipeloid Severity
Acute-Moderate
Erysipeloid Synonyms
Fish-handlers' disease; Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae (insidiosa) infection
Information on Erysipeloid Symptoms, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Screening and Imaging
"Erysipelas due to Group A streptococci is to be distinguished from erysipeloid, caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a localized cutaneous infection seen primarily as an occupational disease of people handling freshwater fish or shellfish, infected swine or turkeys or their tissues, or rarely sheep, cattle, chickens or pheasants." [Chin, p. 471] PCR assays for rapid laboratory identification have been developed. Peniciilin is the recommended drug for both the localized and the rare systemic infections. [Wald, p. 436-7]
Erysipeloid Latency
Days
Erysipeloid References
http://www.dermis.net/doia/image.asp?zugr=d&lang=d&cd=36&nr=60&diagnr=27100