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What is the name of a contagious pustular skin disease?
Impetigo is a contagious pustular skin disease.
How can you catch Impetigo?
Impetigo causes weeping sores, its the 'weeping' that is contagious. Be it via skin to skin contact, a towel or virtually anything. When the sores are fully scabbed they are not contagious, its only the liquid inside the sores that is contagious.
What is a highly contagious bacterial skin infection occurring in children?
impetigo
Is a common contagious superficial skin infection caused by either streptococcus or staphylococcus aureus?
Yes, that is correct. The infection is called impetigo, and it is highly contagious. It commonly affects children and appears as red sores that burst and form a honey-colored crust. It can be treated with topical or oral antibiotics.
Impetigo is a highly contagious viral skin infection?
No, it's a highly infectious bacterial skin infection.
What is and causes infintaigo?
The correct spelling is impetigo and not infintaigo. Impetigo is a skin infection that is very contagious. It is caused by either strep or staph bacteria.
What is the medical term meaning highly contagious bacterial skin infection characterized by skin pus?
pyoderma
Is infitigo contagious?
Yes, impetigo is highly contagious. It is a bacterial infection of the skin that start as a blister and then it spreads to other areas of the body.
Should you seek immediate attention if you have symptoms of impetigo?
Yes, impetigo is a contagious skin infection that is caused by the staph virus. Symptoms include rash, blistering of the skin, skin lesions, and swollen lymph nodes.
Does impetigo affect someone that is pregnant?
Impetigo is contagious and can spread to anyone who comes into contact with infected skin or other items, such as clothing, towels, and bed linens, that have been touched by infected skin.
Is infertago contagious?
Impetigo is a very contagious skin disease. It will clear up on it's own, but antibiotic treatment can clear it more quickly and reduce it's contagious ability.
Is impatigo contagious?
Yes, impetigo is contagious by direct contact (touching). It is caused by a bacterial infection, usually staph or strept, of the skin. It can spread from one spot to another on the same person as well.
