Sir, Eruptive pseudoangiomatosis (EPA) is a rare, selflimiting exanthem, which is known to occur primarily in children. The first reports on this disease can be traced back to 1969 when Cherry et al. (1) described acute haemangioma-like lesions occurring in children with echovirus infection. No skin biopsies, however, were performed. In 1993, Prose et al. (2) proposed the term ‘eruptive pseudoa...

The susceptibilities of seven T-cell lines to human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) infection were examined. MT-4 cells were the most susceptible of these lines to infection with this virus. Therefore, chemically adhered MT-4 cell monolayers were used for infectious HHV-6 assay by indirect immunofluorescent-antibody (IFA) staining. When cell monolayers were fixed 30 to 45 h postinfection, the foci staine...

Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) and human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) are members of the Roseolovirus genus within the Betaherpesvirinae subfamily. HHV-6 and HHV-7 primary infection occurs in early childhood and causes short febrile diseases, sometimes associated with cutaneous rash (exanthem subitum). Both HHV-6 and HHV-7 are highly prevalent in the healthy population, establish latency in macrophages a...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency, epidemiology, clinical features, and prognostic significance of inflamed molluscum contagiosum (MC) lesions, molluscum dermatitis, reactive papular eruptions resembling Gianotti-Crosti syndrome, and atopic dermatitis in patients with MC. DESIGN Retrospective medical chart review. SETTING University-based pediatric dermatology practice. PATIENTS A total of...

Abstract An 87-year-old woman was referred to the acute dermatology service with a 1-week history of generalized painful rash. She under care medical team for treatment pneumonia symptoms cough, fevers and shortness breath. Her past included adult-onset asthma, hyponatraemia hypertension. had never smoked. On examination, she erythematous smooth papules plaques on her limbs torso palmoplantar i...

reye's syndrome is defined as fatty liver degeneration and acute encephalopathy following diffused abnormal mitochondrial activity. we reported a two year old girl admitted with lethargy and meningismus despite no evidence of blood sugar decrease, history of previous viral disease or drug use, complete tests showed reye syndrome as the final diagnosis. conservative protocols and treatment inclu...

elevated serum level of bilirubin is a common manifestation which is occurred in several diseases. hyperbilirubinemia can manifest either conjugated or unconjugated. conjugated or direct hyperbilirubinemia usually are caused by hepatocellular diseases or cholestatic liver diseases. merely conjugated hyperbilirubinemia is the main manifestation of two congenital syndromes, including dubin-johnso...

background: hepatitis activity index (hai) and fibrosing stage are two important findings during the evaluation of liver samples in patients with chronic hepatitis b. the aim of this study was to determine the hai and fibrosing stage in patients with anti-hbe positive chronic hepatitis b. methods: liver biopsy slides of 72 patients were evaluated at the department of pathology in two teaching h...

conclusions it is concluded that most hbeag negative hepatitis b patients with serum hbv dna level of 2000-20000 iu/ml, persistent normal alt concentration, and no or mild liver damage on biopsy can be clinically managed as hbv inactive carriers. results two hundred forty-three hbeag negative hepatitis b patients were stratified into three groups based on to their hbv dna level including group ...

a rapid and sensitive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) and nested-pcr were used to detect bovine viral diarrhea virus 1 (bvdv-1) in bull semen. selected primers could amplify a part of the 5´utr of the bvdv genome. a 294 bp dna fragment was amplified and specificity of the results was confirmed by direct sequencing of the pcr product. prior to rna extraction, the seminal...