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AUTHOR
Luca Pipitò
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Verrucous penile lesions and widespread vesicular rash in a 33‐year‐old bisexual man
2022
A 33-year-old bisexual man presented to the Department of Infectious Diseases with a 9-day history of non-itching, painless, pustular, and vesicular lesions that were scattered and a high fever.
Pustular lesions and itching in a couple of young migrants
2022
Two teenage illegal migrants from Bangladesh coming from a Libyan port arrived at Lampedusa Island-Italy. The health authorities, having noticed the presence of pustules on the limbs and genitals, suspecting a monkeypox virus infection, have urgently transferred them to the University Hospital of Palermo. They mentioned itching and prior sexual contact. On inspection, itching lesions and pustular lesions with central crusted umbilication and erythematous bases were detected. One of them had also fever and increased c-reactive protein. A real-time polymerase chain reaction assay on vesicle swabs to research monkeypoxvirus DNA and HIV serology was performed for both patients.
Fever with perinasal and tongue lesions: A diagnostic challenge
2023
The diagnosis may be challenging, and high suspicion index should be maintained in immunosuppressed patients with unusual mucocutaneous lesions, even in non-endemic areas for mucocutaneous leishmaniasis.
Genital pustules, fever, lymphadenopathy in a heterosexual couple
2022
No abstract available
Monkeypox virus infection and creatine phosphokinase increase: A case from Italy.
2022
No abstract available.
Monkeypox proctitis treated with doxycycline in an HIV MSM returning to Italy from France
2022
No abstract available