an infectious skin disease (impetere; IMPETUS). Bacterial inflammatory skin disease, the most common skin infection in children. Initial blisters rupture, drying to a crust. Caused by staphylococcus or streptococcus, it is very contagious in newborns, becoming less so with age. Poor hygiene, crowding, and humid, hot weather may promote its spread. A broad-spectrum antibiotic applied to the blisters can treat simple impetigo; more extensive cases, especially in infants, may require a systemic antibiotic
contagious skin disease caused by Staphylococcus or Streptococcus bacteria, characterized by weeping, crusting, and areas of pus formation
A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation
The homeless are vulnerable to bullous and non-bullous impetigo It also occurs when breaks in the skin allow bacteria to enter However, the skin does not have to break to develop impetigo Complicated impetigo may result in cellulitis
{i} contagious skin disease caused by a bacteria and characterized by pustular eruptions on the skin (Medicine)
a bacterial skin infection where there are yellow, crusty blisters May also arise as a secondary infection caused by head lice
is a bacterial skin infection characterized by small pus-filled blisters that form honey-yellow crusts U
A contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites