"It seems most likely that there has to be a break in the skin.

Some people can get cellulitis without having a break in the skin.

Bacteria can enter your body through a break in the skin - from a cut, scratch, or bite.

It usually starts when bacteria get into a break in the skin, such as a cut, scratch or insect bite.

They walked around a quarter of the worldlet's circumference and came to a break in the skin surface.

Infection occurs when the virus enters a break in the skin caused by a cut or a rash.

The editor pitched backward into Gideon's arms, his cheek bleeding from a break in the skin.

The herpes simplex virus usually enters the body through a break in the skin around or inside the mouth.

The link was therefore transcutaneous; it did not require a break in the skin after implantation.

That one was the watch officer, whose front, though without a break in the skin, was soaked with what was obviously blood.

An animal bite can result in a break in the skin, a bruise, or a puncture wound.

Cellulitis is caused by bacteria, usually staphylococcus or streptococcus, which can get through a break in the skin.

The tetanus bacteria get in a wound through a break in the skin or mucous membrane.

A break in the skin or bleeding from a mole or other colored skin lesion.

The genital ulcers caused by syphilis create a break in the skin through which the virus can pass in or out more easily.

It is harmless until it enters a break in the skin, where it can feed on tissue and multiply.

Once there is a break in the skin, there is a great risk that the sore can become infected and so correct treatment is essential.

A swimming pool granuloma occurs when water containing Mycobacterium marinum bacteria enters a break in the skin.

If they invade via a break in the skin, the result is cutaneous anthrax, which often resolves without treatment and is easily cured by antibiotics.

Buddie snatched up Frankie's hand, prodded the swelling and squeezed the purple bruises in his search for a break in the skin.

Even tiny amounts of the C. botulinum toxin ingested, inhaled, or absorbed through the eye or a break in the skin can cause serious illness.

Cellulitis usually develops after a break in the skin from a scrape, cut, bite, or puncture, or after a rash.

The mode of infection is believed to be either through a break in the skin, or through the inhalation of aerosolized B. pseudomallei.

Hunters of ground squirrels, rabbits, and similar game, for example, can contract the disease if an infected animal's bodily fluids enter through a break in the skin.