In September 2000, a physician in northern California described four patients with persistent, culture-negative boils on the lower extremities. The patients had received pedicures at the same nail ...

Eccrine Sweat Glands Play Role in Human Wound Repair The incidence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in the United States is increasing and is associated ...

Due to the re-occurrence of a fish disease that has affected a section of the Pequest Trout Hatchery in Warren County, the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife is euthanizing a portion of its ...

Last September, Dave Chanda, director of New Jersey’s Division of Fish and Wildlife, said the furunculosis outbreak at the Pequest Trout Hatchery would have minimal impacts on the availability of fish ...

You can get rid of a small boil with the help of home treatments, like covering the boil in a wet washcloth. Larger or recurrent boils require medical attention and medical treatment. Share on ...

These skin infections are caused by a bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus. The bacteria infect a hair follicle resulting in the formation of a small swelling that goes on to form an abscess. The ...

INVESTIGATIONS into the occurrence of furunculosis among spawning or spawned salmon were undertaken in Scotland during the spawning seasons of 1958–59 and 1959–60 1. In the former season 96 salmon ...

THE Interim Report issued in March last (Edinburgh: His Majesty's Stationery Office) of the Furunculosis Committee appointed in July 1929, by the Bight Hon. William Adamson and the Right Hon. Noel ...