Treatment is with antibiotic therapy. Erysipelas is an acute infection of the skin. It is usually accompanied with chills and fever. Treatment with penicillin is curative. Streptococcal cellulitis is an acute spreading infection of the skin and underlying tissue and may follow burns, wounds or mild trauma.
Treatment requires antibiotic therapy.
This is a rare infection of the skin and deeper tissues characterised by extensive and rapidly spreading death of tissue and underlying structures. It is by no means a new entity and was described in China as early as 1924. Characteristically, it begins at a site of trivial or even inapparent trauma. It begins as an area of mild redness on the skin, but over the next 2-3 days undergoes a marked change. The inflammation becomes more pronounced, the skin becomes dusky and then purplish, and then bloody blisters develop in the skin.