Dermatológia pre prax 1/2008

INFECTIOUS PARVOVIRAL EXANTHEMAS IN CHILDREN

Parvoviral infectious exanthemas aren´t rare in children, however, this origin of exanthemas is not in clinical practice thought of in the most of cases. Diseases are then mistakenly classified as toxoallergic drug exanthemas. Usually antibiotics are mostly suspected to cause drug-induced cutaneous reactions. Except from the parvoviral infectious exanthema also erythema infectiosum and „gloves and socks syndrome“ have parvoviral etiology. In the recent time there are participating as the etiopathogenetic agents on the pathogenesis of the viral infectious exanthemas simultaneously more viruses, what complicates the whole problem from diagnostic and therapeutic point of view as well.

Keywords: infectious viral exanthemas, parvoviruses.