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A plantar wart is a wart occurring on the bottom of the foot or toes. [5] Its color is typically similar to that of the skin. [2] Small black dots often occur on the surface. [5] ...
Prevention: Avoiding skin contact with infected individual, not walking barefoot in public areas, having safe sex or sexual abstinence: Treatment: Salicylic acid, cryotherapy, [1] surgical removal: Frequency: Very common [2]
Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) is a skin condition characterised by warty skin lesions. [1] It results from an abnormal susceptibility to HPV infection (HPV). It is associated with a high lifetime risk of squamous cell carcinomas in skin. [1]
The study was criticized due to lack of a placebo control group, [11] and because a number of outcome assessments were done by phone. [12] There was also no reported long term follow up to ensure no recurrence of the warts. [11] [10] Two later studies failed to repeat the results of the 2002 study.
A VHF outbreak in the village of Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that started in August 2007, and that has killed 103 people (100 adults and three children), has been shown to be caused (at least partially) by Ebola virus. A viral hemorrhagic fever is a possible cause of the Plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. [13]
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is a private nonprofit professional organization based in Arlington, VA for healthcare practitioners dedicated to the principles of infection control. APIC has more than 15,000 members. APIC concentrates its efforts in the hospital, nursing home and home health settings.
Flat warts, technically known as verruca plana, are reddish-brown or flesh-colored, slightly raised, flat-surfaced, well-demarcated papule of 2 to 5 mm in diameter. Upon close inspection, these lesions have a surface that is "finely verrucous".
Subtypes of verrucous carcinoma Subtype Clinical features Epithelioma cuniculatum (Ackerman tumor, Carcinoma cuniculatum): Arises on the sole of the foot from wart Giant condyloma of Buschke–Löwenstein tumor (Buschke–Löwenstein tumor, Giant condyloma acuminatum)