Impetigo is also witnessed among grazing animals, regardless of age, and it especially attacks animals with white hair and skin.
Impetigo affects sucking calves, in which the disease appears upon the lips, nostrils, and face.
Impetigo is an inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the formation of distinct pustules, about the size of a pea or a bean, without itching.
The so-called varicella prurigo of Hutchison of London[2] includes several of the disorders considered above under the titles impetigo, impetigo contagiosa, and the vaccine rashes.
From impetigo and the impetigo contagiosa of Fox of London it will often be scarcely differentiated.
The two forms of impetigo occur without fever, are usually scantily developed, and are much more apt to be pustular in type, lacking, moreover, the halo of the varicella lesions.
The non-contagious variety of impetigo is much more decidedly pustular in its lesions, and the latter spring from a deeper plane of the epidermis.
Impetigo, impetigo contagiosa, and varicella are all sufficiently common accidents after vaccination.
No reliance can be placed upon characteristics described as connected with a certain stuck-on appearance of the crust regarded by Fox as characteristic of the crusts in impetigo contagiosa.
Apart from impetigo contagiosa, the cutaneous complications that follow in the wake of vaccination possess no distinctive features, and their management differs in no wise from that of the same manifestations due to other causes.
Impetigo is a term applied to an inflammation of the skin, more severe and energetic in its character than the preceding affection.
The predisposing cause of impetigo is nutritive debility, and the exciting causes are irritation, impure air, and errors of diet.
The varieties of impetigo are designated according to the distribution of the pustules.
In impetigo sparsa the pustules are scattered over the whole body.
Impetigo is marked by the formation of yellow pus, which raises the cuticle into pustules.
Impetigo figurata, is characterized by the appearance of large clusters upon an inflamed and swollen surface, generally upon the face, but sometimes upon the scalp.
Complications with eczema and impetigo are very frequent; where they are found the glandular swellings of the neck and below are still more marked than in uncomplicated cases.
In impetigo contagiosa there might under similar circumstances be a momentary doubt as to the nature of the illness.
How doesimpetigo contagiosa differ from these several diseases?
From what diseases is impetigo contagiosa to be differentiated?
This variety was formerly thought to be a distinct disease, and was described under the name of impetigo simplex.
