title: Ocular manifestations of infectious skin diseases.
abstract: Ocular complications of infectious skin diseases are a common occurrence. Managing the inflamed or infected eye in the emergency setting presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the emergency physician. Infectious agents may affect any part of the eye. Ocular findings may be the first sign of many infectious diseases, such as, for example, gonorrhea or chlamydia infection. Understanding the various forms of ocular involvement in these conditions is important, because untreated ophthalmic involvement can lead to severe vision loss. This review focuses on the significant ocular manifestations of the most common infectious diseases, including bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infections, that both ophthalmologists and dermatologists may encounter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland. Electronic address: a.sadowska80@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sadowska-Przytocka
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland.
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Czarnecka-Operacz
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland.
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jenerowicz
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Poznan City Hospital, Poznan, Poland; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland.
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grzybowski
mesh_terms: D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000150:complications*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000469:parasitology*; D005148:Facial Dermatoses / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000150:complications*; D012876:Skin Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications*; D017193:Skin Diseases, Viral / Q000150:complications*