What is it about?
A common yet misdiagnosed condition that leads to prolonged suffering is due to the lack of inclusion in the curriculum for internists and internal medicine subspecialists. Easy to diagnose with simple tools that can be learned and implemented in office practice.
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This is a comprehensive review of the subject. It encompasses newer treatment options and indicates areas needing research.
Perspectives
What is common should find emphasis in the learning curriculum. Horses are more common to find than zebras. The infectious disease syllabus emphasizes infections like sporotrichosis resulting from a rose thorn prick in a gardener but a leading textbook of infectious disease has a meagre few lines on the much more common erythrasma. This article will bridge that gap.
Dr Venkatraman Rajkumar
Banting Clinic for Diabetes and Endocrinology Chennai India
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This page is a summary of: Erythrasma: A Superficial Cutaneous Bacterial Infection Overlooked in Clinical Practice, touchREVIEWS in Infectious Diseases, January 2023, Touch Digital Media, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.17925/id.2023.2.1.19.
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