U. Baldari et al., AN EPIDEMIC OF INFANTILE PAPULAR ACRODERMATITIS (GIANOTTI-CROSTI SYNDROME) DUE TO EPSTEIN-BARR-VIRUS, Dermatology, 188(3), 1994, pp. 203-204
Five out of twelve 13- to 15-month-old children, attending the same cl
ass of a creche in Forli (Italy), presented infantile papular acroderm
atitis (Gianotti-Crosti syndrome), associated with lymphocytosis and e
vidence for a recent Epstein-Barr virus infection. This cluster may be
due to two facts: (1) the long and close contacts among the patients
and (2) the concurrent immunization with a combined diphtheria-tetanus
-pertussis-polyomyelitis vaccine from 2 to 6 weeks previously.