Primary cutaneous nocardiosis in a husband and wife.
A 62-year-old woman suffered from acute purulent skin disease with multiple subcutaneous abscesses. At the same time, her 65-year-old husband presented with multiple subcutaneous nodules along the lymphatic vessels of his right arm. Both had a history of a minor scratch by a thorn of a bush at the site of infection. Nocardia was identified as causative bacterium from the woman's lesions. Therefore the rare phenomenon of 2 different forms of acute primary cutaneous nocardiosis after simultaneous infection, lymphocutaneous infection, and superficial skin infection was diagnosed.Hot Off the Presses

Live Social Networking at Premiere Orlando NailTech Event

Premiere Orlando has been the selected destination for BeautyTech.com members to meet in person for the last 12 or so years. It all started back in the late 1990s when techs from the BeautyTech.com forums would get together for breakfast so they could meet each other face-to-face after having only chatted online. Webmaster Debbie Doerrlamm officially took the event over in 2004. It quickly became a destination networking event, morphing from a breakfast on the first day of the show to a more leisurely barbeque the day before the show started.

Several years ago, NAILS got involved and together we've turned the NailTech Networking Orlando Social into an annual destination for newbie and veteran techs alike. Held this year