Dermatológia pre prax 4/2020

Skin eruptions in infection diseases

Parainfectious skin eruptions could be defined as skin rush of most of the body surface where the infection play a role. They are caused directly by a bacterial or viral infection or by immune reaction of the organism to the bacterial or viral infection. A lot of diseases caused by viral infections, which are manifested by typical skin or/and mucosal eruptions can be easily diagnosed upon medical history and by physical examination of the patient. Indeed sometimes are the clinical features rather unusual and the diagnose can be difficult. The aim of this paper is to divide the parainfectious skin eruptions into groups by their cause to point out some rare diseases and extend the differential diagnostics.

Keywords: measles, chickenpox, shingles, hand-foot-mouth disease, infectious mononucleosis, scarlet fever, syphillis, urticaria, vascullitis, erythema exsudativum multiforme