Impetigo Research Paper

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Disorder of Impetigo
Impetigo is a disorder that is spread through contact of sharing, and touching. When a person has been infected, then the disorder would reach to the dermis layer of the skin. Impetigo is a bacteria that infects the skin through cuts, injuries, burns, bites, and many more. Impetigo affects the liver, intestines, blood, lymph nodes, and epidermis. Impetigo will occur when there is an excessive amount of bile pigment in the blood. It will usually show blisters around the body, mainly the face.

Bacteria is able to be spread through contact if fluid excretion through impetigo lesions. Nonbullous is more contagious than bullous by contact. However bullous would show blisters while nonbullous does not. There's red blisters

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