infectious eczematoid dermatitis

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A form of dermatitis caused by the spreading of purulent material that exudes from the site of an infection.

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For most infectious, the amount is 100 or even 1,000 times that.
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Although bats may have creeped us out for centuries, their links to emerging infectious diseases are much more recent.
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In Malaysia and Bangladesh, a devastating infectious neurological disease emerged just a few years after Hendra.
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The only existing study, printed in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in 1999, leaves scientists with the same questions.
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Adam Lausing, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan, emphasized that Ebola is not a respiratory disease.
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The last movement had the infectious gayety that Mozart's things often have, with a magnificent cadenza by himself.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
The infectious diseases in which leukocytosis is absent (p. 160) often cause a slight decrease of leukocytes.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
(b) Acute infectious diseases, especially rheumatism and typhoid fever.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Predominance of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (pus-corpuscles) points to an acute infectious process (Fig. 117).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The usual cause of acute infectious conjunctivitis, especially in cities, seems to be the Koch-Weeks bacillus.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd