Rashes COPIED

Question 1

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Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.

This bacterium produces an exfoliative toxin that causes the outer layers of skin to blister and peel, as if they’ve been doused with a hot liquid

Question 2

Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

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Question 3

Meningococcal septicaemia

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Widespread purpuric rash of septicaemia

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Chicken pox

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Erythema infectiosum (fifth disease)

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Question 13

Cold sores

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Question 15

Scabies

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Question 16

warts

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Question 17

Mumps - notifiable disease.

How does it present?

Mumps is an acute, generalised infection caused by a paramyxovirus, usually in children and young adults.

The incubation period is between 14-25 days

The virus is highly infectious with transmission by droplets spread in saliva via close personal contact.

Answer 17

Nonspecific symptoms lasting a few days, such as fever, headache, malaise, myalgia and anorexia, can precede parotitis (usually bilateral). May be pain near angle of jaw.

Fever without rigors in small children.

Orchitis may occur four or five days after the start of parotitis but it often appears without it.

Meningism occurs in around 15% of patients. Usually self-limiting.