ALLMedicine™ Human Bites Center

Apr 11th, 2021 - Human bites are an infrequent cause of emergency department visits and hospital admissions. There are rarely published cases of complicated infection, such as infective endocarditis. We present a rare case of a patient with acute infective endocar...

Apr 1st, 2021 - Bites are an important contributor to traumatic injury worldwide. In low- and middle-income countries, data regarding bite injuries outside of rabies is limited. Therefore, we sought to describe the injury characteristics and outcomes of bites in ...

Mar 4th, 2021 - Background Approximately 10%-15% of human bite wounds become infected owing to multiple factors. The bacterial inoculum of human bite wounds contains as many as 100 million organisms per milliliter and is made up of as many as 190 different specie...

Mar 4th, 2021 - Background Approximately 10%-15% of human bite wounds become infected owing to multiple factors. The bacterial inoculum of human bite wounds contains as many as 100 million organisms per milliliter and is made up of as many as 190 different specie...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Snakebites in Europe are mostly due to bites from Viperidae species of the genus Vipera. This represents a neglected public health hazard with poorly defined incidence, morbidity and mortality. In Europe, fourteen species of "true vipers" (subfami...

Jan 20th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Matthew F. Watto, MD: Welcome back to The Curbsiders. I'm Dr Matthew Frank Watto, here with my two great friends, Dr Stuart Brigham and Dr Paul Nelson Williams. We are board-certified internists. Paul N...

Apr 22nd, 2019 - Two weeks of antibiotic therapy was as effective as 4 weeks for septic arthritis, a prospective single-center study found. Among 77 patients randomized to a 4-week course of therapy following surgical drainage for native joint bacterial arthritis,...

Apr 2nd, 2018 - Approximately 10%-15% of human bite wounds become infected owing to multiple factors. The bacterial inoculum of human bite wounds contains as many as 100 million organisms per mL and is made up of as many as 190 different species. Many of these ar...

Orthopaedic Surgery Specialties Hand Surgery Hand surgery infection rates are generally low, and multiple studies have shown an infection rate of less than 1%.[13,14] Some factors associated with SSIs in hand surgery include diabetes, immunosuppre...