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- Title
Erythema Infectiosum (Fifth Disease).
- Authors
Balfour Jr., Henry H.
- Abstract
Presented here is a clinical review and description of several cases of erythema infectiosum seen in an epidemic in the U.S. It is an acute communicable exanthematous disease of presumed viral etiology. Diagnosis is based upon recognition of the characteristic exanthem and its progression in a patient with minimal constitutional symptoms. Consistent features of erythema infectiosum observed in this epidemic were absence of prodrome, lack of fever and constitutional symptoms in children, pruritus, and a predilection for the rash to involve face, chest, lateral upper arms, buttocks and anterior thighs. Certain clinical manifestations of erythema infectiosum are similar to those of rubella. It is important to distinguish fifth disease from rubella because of the teratogenicity of the latter.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FIFTH disease; ERYTHEMA; PARVOVIRUS diseases; EPIDEMICS; JUVENILE diseases
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 1969, Vol 8, Issue 12, p721
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000992286900801212