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What does ecthyma mean?

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Noun
  1. An ulcerative pyoderma of the skin, caused by bacteria.
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The virus primarily causes contagious ecthyma in wild and domestic ruminants, mostly sheep and goats.
Significant problems were also pyodermas, such as furunculosis or ecthyma.
In ecthyma the pustules are generally of the size of a split pea, and surrounded at their base by a broad halo of redness.
She developed ecthyma gangrenosum-like lesions and simultaneously had Pseudomonas bacteremia and disseminated fusariosis.
An ecthyma may begin with a pus-filled blister, similar to that seen in impetigo.
How would you differentiate the large flat-pustular syphiloderm from ecthyma?

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