Pathogenesis and Treatment of Chronic Paronychia

Esteves, Juvenal

doi:10.1159/000255443

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“…According to Stone 9.5% of diabetic female patients over the age of 20 suffered from chronic paronychia in comparison to control group however, authors found 55% diabetic patients who were suffering from paronychia. 9 Esteves found most of his patients in 30 to 60 years of age group. 10 Hellier and Whittle et al found 77% and 72% incidence respectively in the above age groups.…”

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Paronychia: incidence during Magh Mela

Narain¹,

Kant²,

Bajaj

2018

Int J Adv Med

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Background: Paronychia is one of the most common infections of the fingers and toes. Clinically, paronychia present as an acute or a chronic condition.Methods: The retrospective study was carried out from January 2018 to February 2018 at Allahabad. Gram stain, ZN stain, KOH examination and culture were carried out in 230 cases and species identification was done by Vitek-2 system.Results: Out of these 230 cases 142 (61.73%) presented acute paronychia, 58 (25.21%) cases of chronic paronychia and the remaining 30 cases (13.06%) did not show any growth. In the cases of acute paronychia, authors identified 53.52% Staphylococcus aures, 15.49% Staphylococcus saprophyticus, 2.82% Micrococci and 6.34% Citrobacter among aerobes while among anaerobes authors isolated 5.63% Peptococcus, 8.45% Peptostreptococcus, 3.52% Bacteroides and 4.23% Fusobacterium. Among chronic paronychia authors recorded 48.28% pure bacterial growth, 18.97% pure fungal growth, 20.69% mixed bacterial infections and 12.07% mixed bacterial and fungal infections.Conclusions: From this study authors conclude that cold weather and humidity were the predominant and predisposing factors of the high incidence of acute paronychia. Due to very short span single pathogen was isolated from the lesions. In cases of chronic paronychia 37.76% mixed infection were also recorded which may be due to super aided infections with primary pathogen.

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confidence: 93%

“…respectively and they all agreed that candida albicans was the major pathogen. 9,12,13,17,18 None of them reported anaerobes as the causative pathogen of paronychia.…”

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confidence: 99%