The word "cutaneous" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that directly affects the skin, such as a cutaneous disease. For example, "The patient was diagnosed with a cutaneous disorder affecting the upper layers of her skin."
There are three main forms of the disease – cutaneous, visceral and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis – that affect between 1 and 2 million people each year.
His aim was to find the source of cutaneous leishmaniasis, known locally as "chiclero ulcer".
Vaccination campaigns against measles have been hit and cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disease transmitted to humans through sand fly bites already endemic in parts of Syria, especially Aleppo, is spreading.
An eighth suspected case was identified in New Jersey, also on October 31st.The authorities seem baffled by the latest death, of a hospital worker, and by the case of another woman, in New Jersey, who has cutaneous anthrax.
Besides those affected in Washington, two, possibly three, workers have tested positive for cutaneous anthrax at the sorting office in New Jersey, through which at least three of the known contaminated letters passed: all three were posted in Trenton.
And it was confirmed that another worker at NBC, one of the affected New York-based television stations, had contracted the cutaneous form of anthrax.
She turned out to have cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, a rare cancer.
Most of those have contracted the much milder, cutaneous form of the disease.
Two, possibly three, workers have tested positive for cutaneous anthrax at the sorting office in New Jersey through which at least three of the known contaminated letters passed: all three were posted in Trenton.
The letter to Mr Daschle was similar to one sent to Tom Brokaw, an anchorman at NBC News in New York; his assistant who opened the letter has now developed the cutaneous form of the disease.
A further five people have been diagnosed with the less serious cutaneous variety that affects the skin.In Washington, a Justice Department facility became the latest government building in which traces of anthrax have been found.
