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Erysipelas.

Erysipelas is an acute dermo-hypodermal infection (non necrotizing) of bacterial origin, mainly group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus. The lower limbs are affected in more than 80% of the cases and the identified risk factors are disruption of cutaneous barrier, lymphoedema and obesity. Diagnosis is clinical and based upon the association of an acute inflammatory plaque with fever, lymphangitis, adenopathy and ...