“…Microbiologic procedures (Gram stain and culture) can confirm the diagnosis [3,7,14,15]. The differential diagnosis of CA includes insect bites, molluscum contagiosum, cellulitis, ecthyma, milker's nodule, plague, tularemia, aspergillosis, mucormycosis, cutaneous leishmaniasis, cutaneous tuberculosis, leprosy, rat bite fever, scrub typhus, rickettsial spotted fevers and ecthyma gangrenosum.…”