Bacterial skin infections in childhood

Abstract

Bacterial skin infections are among the most common clinical conditions found in pediatric dermatological practice. Bacterial diseases of the skin - pyoderma - are all inflammatory processes caused by bacteria (staphylococci, streptococci, corynebacteria, propionibacteria, Escherichia coli , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , proteus, etc.). Actually, these are diseases caused by purulent bacteria - pyococci - mostly staphylococci and streptococci. Bacterial infections of the skin and skin structures, commonly found in children, include impetigo, ecthyma, folliculitis, furuncles, carbuncles, inflammation of epidermal appendages, streptococcal perianal dermatitis and others. Skin infections are primary and secondary, depending on the mode of action. Pyoderma can be acute, subacute, recurrent, and with obvious clinical signs of inflammation. Another division of skin bacterial infections defines them as uncomplicated (superficial) and complicated (deep). Various factors, such as poverty, malnutrition, poor hygiene, lower socio-economic status, climate change, immunocompromised conditions, comorbidity, and increasing resistance to pathogens, are the cause of increased incidence of bacterial skin infections.