Abstract
Exotic infection should strictly mean infection from another country or that which is at least strange or bizarre, but is most frequently used among dermatologists to mean infection that is rare. Publishing reports of exotic infection may seem to be a form of clinical gamesmanship, but I believe it has value to others. Rarity may be the result of a genuine lack of cases of infection, there may be local rarity with an abundance of cases elsewhere or infection may appear rare because it is seldom reported.
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Noble, W.C. (1981). Exotic Infection: Its Relevance to Clinical Microbiology. In: Maibach, H.I., Aly, R. (eds) Skin Microbiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5868-1_25
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