AN EPIDEMIC OF INFANTILE PAPULAR ACRODERMATITIS (GIANOTTI-CROSTI SYNDROME) DUE TO EPSTEIN-BARR-VIRUS

Authors
BALDARI U MONTI A RIGHINI MG
Citation
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
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
10188665
Volume
188
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
203 - 204
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-8665(1994)188:3<203:AEOIPA>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
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.