A Curious Rash

Rabach, Ingrid; Berti, Irene; Bibalo, Cristina; Longo, Giorgio

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.12.045

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“…We found 264 studies related to the possible cutaneous and mucosal manifestations during EBV acute infection; we selected the articles that more exhaustively reported the clinical and laboratory description of the case/cases, 5‐45 published from 1954 to 2018 (Table 1).…”

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Dermatological manifestations of Epstein‐Barr virus systemic infection: a case report and literature review

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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human herpesvirus spread in childhood by contact with saliva. In all populations, the great majority of people are infected by middle age. EBV can cause asymptomatic infection, nonspecific symptoms or, especially in adolescents and young adults, the infectious mononucleosis (IM), characterized by pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy, fatigue, and fever. Two main types of skin rashes, accounted as atypical exanthems, occur in patients with acute IM: a faint erythematous maculopapular eruption of 24-48 hours duration (5-15% of the patients) or a pruritic maculopapular rash in almost all patients receiving ampicillin or amoxicillin. Moreover EBV acute infection has been related to other cutaneous manifestations, such as Gianotti-Crosti syndrome, unilateral laterothoracic exanthem (especially in children), and others. In this study, we reported a case of atypical exanthem with an erythematous-papulovesicular pattern in a 22-year-old female patient with IM and performed a review of the literature of the cutaneous and mucosal eruptions occurring during EBV acute infections.

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