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Other Viral Infections of the Skin

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Viral infections of the skin are common at any age. This chapter discusses smallpox viruses, picornaviruses, classical infectious diseases, and paraviral infections. While real smallpox is no longer important except for bioterrorism, cowpox (orthopox viruses) as well as parapox virus infections of Milker’s nodule and orf should also be considered for skin infections. The most common smallpox virus infection is Mollusca contagiosa (parapox virus), which is associated with atopy in childhood and immunosuppression, such as AIDS, in adulthood. Enteroviruses and parechoviruses, which belong to the picornaviruses, trigger distinct exanthemas such as the classical and atypical hand-foot-mouth disease and the human parechovirus-3 exanthema, which is characteristic in infancy. While most classical exanthemas in childhood are directly attributable to infection by the pathogens, paraviral exanthemas are to be understood as a response of the immune system. Of these, papular-purpurpuric gloves-and-socks syndrome, asymmetric periflexurall and unilateral mediothoracic exanthema, as well as eruptive pseudoangiomatosis and eruptive hypomelanosis are discussed.

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  1. Clinic for Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Gerd Plewig

  2. Department of Dermatology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Lars French

  3. Department of Dermatology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Thomas Ruzicka

  4. Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, Frankfurt University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

    Roland Kaufmann

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Fölster-Holst, R. (2020). Other Viral Infections of the Skin. In: Plewig, G., French, L., Ruzicka, T., Kaufmann, R., Hertl, M. (eds) Braun-Falco´s Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58713-3_10-1

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