| Yazarlar |
Atakan Baykal
Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji ABD, Turkey |
Fatih BÜYÜK
Kafkas Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
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Mitat Şahin
Kafkas Üniversitesi, Veteriner Fakültesi, Turkey |
| Özet |
| Orf and cutaneous anthrax are zoonotic infections emerge following the human contacts with infected animals. Infection sources, transmission ways, incubation periods, location of skin lesions, and characteristics of the lesions are quite similar in these two infec-tions. In this respect, the differential preliminary diagnosis of these dis-eases, which are clinically and epidemiologically similar, can be made by characteristic skin lesions, histopathological findings, and animal contact history. In this case report, the differential diagnosis of anthrax and orf was made in a 26-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man patient presenting skin lesions with histories of animal contacts based on the characteristics of skin lesions and analysis with an anthrax-based polymerase chain reaction. Hereby, we contributed to the patient wel-fare of individuals diagnosed as orf infection with its benign nature by preventing the multiple complementary laboratory tests and unnecessary over treatments. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| Cutaneous anthrax | Differential diagnosis | Orf |
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale |
| Makale Alt Türü | SCOPUS dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Sciences |
| Dergi ISSN | 1300-0292 |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 01-2021 |
| Cilt No | 41 |
| Sayı | 2 |
| Sayfalar | 192 / 196 |
| Doi Numarası | 10.5336/medsci.2020-80299 |
| Atıf Sayıları |
