Diseases

Carbuncle

An infection of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue that consists of a cluster of boils. Commonly, the causative agent is STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS. Carbuncles produce fever, leukocytosis, extreme pain, and prostration.

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An infection of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue that consists of a cluster of boils. Commonly, the causative agent is STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS. Carbuncles produce fever, leukocytosis, extreme pain, and prostration.

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  • Carbuncles

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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usually caused by Staph; malignant carbuncle = ANTHRAX

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  2. C01w.150.252w.819.770.270.200w
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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Carbuncle. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002270. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002270
  2. Carbuncle. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbuncle_(pathology)
  3. Carbuncle. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q959922