OCCUPATIONS |
High-Risk
Job Task |
DISEASES |
- Dentist
- Dental assistant
- Dental hygienist
- Physician
- Physician assistant
- Respiratory therapist
- Paramedic
|
Work in patients’ mouths |
- Herpetic whitlow
|
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Animal scientist
- Animal breeder
- Veterinarian
|
Touch infected farm animals |
- Cutaneous Anthrax
- Orf
- Ringworm
|
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Groundskeeper
- Laborer
|
Touch (e.g., barefooted) contaminated
soil in endemic area |
- Chromomycosis
- Cutaneous larva migrans
|
- Florist
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Groundskeeper
- Horticulturist
- Materials processor
- Tree trimmer
|
Touch plants containing thorns, splinters
or spaghum moss |
- Sporotrichosis
|
- Slaughterer
- Meat packer
- Butcher
|
Touch infected meat or poultry |
- Erysipeloid
- Viral warts
|
- Fisher
|
Touch infected fish or shellfish |
- Erysipeloid
- Mycobacterium marinum skin infection
- Vibrio vulnificus infection
|
- Dishwasher
- Poultry processor
- Cannery processor
- Bartender
|
Work continuously with wet hands |
- Candida paronychia
|
- Groundskeeper
- Aquarium keeper
|
Clean pools or aquariums |
- Mycobacterium marinum skin infection
|
- Hunter & Trapper
- Laborer
|
Work in forest in endemic areas of
Central and South America |
- Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
|
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Herpetic Whitlow - Index Finger,
Periungual (photo, 16 K)
- NIOSH: Photolibrary
(photos: Herpetic fingers, M. marinum, Milker's Nodule and
Orf)
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Chromomycosis - Left leg
(photo, 22K)
- NIOSH: Photolibrary
(photos: Anthrax, Sporotrichosis, Chromomycosis & T.
verrucosum)
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Cutaneous Larva Migrans - Dorsal
Foot (photo, 33 K)
- DermIS: Larva
migrans cutanea (photos)
- DPDx: Hookworm
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Sporotrichosis - Left Wrist (photo, 41 K)
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Sporotrichosis - Right Hand
(photo, 17 K)
- NCID: Sporotrichosis
- DermIS: Erysipeloid
(photo, 38K)
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Candida albicans isolated. Note
associated paronychia. (photo, 20 K)
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Swimming Pool Granuloma (photo, 18 K)
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Fish Tank Granuloma (photo, 30 K)
- Dermatology, U. of Iowa: Leishmaniasis - Face and Ears
(photo, 23 K)
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