Brown Recluse Spider Bite--or Something Else?

October 4, 2010

A previously healthy 40-year-old man complains of worsening lower-extremity discomfort. He noticed the discomfort several days earlier on awakening and thought that he had been bitten by a spider. The lesion, initially a small pustule, has enlarged into an open wound.

Does this look like a spider bite to you?

(Case and photograph courtesy of David Effron, MD.)

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by Marna Regehr | April 08, 2011 10:41 PM EDT

BYU$

by Jason Vogt | April 07, 2011 10:11 AM EDT

MRSA

by Amit Taneja | April 06, 2011 9:34 PM EDT

actually a study came out few years ago and I cant recall where-one of the clues to it being MRSA infection is the patient's history that they think it's a spider bite; when they don't actually recall bitten by a spider. This is CA-MRSA

by Jeffery May, M.D. | April 05, 2011 3:20 PM EDT

nope, MRSA

by ann hashagen | April 05, 2011 11:21 AM EDT

Looks like mrsa

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