BACKGROUND Hand, food, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a highly contagious disease caused by enteroviruses infection. It is a health problem in young children under 5 years of age worldwide. The common causative agents are coxsackievirus A 16 (CA16) and enterovirus 71 (EV71). In recent years, coxsackievirus A6 (CA6) has emerged to be one of the major etiologic agents of HFMD worldwide including in ...

To the Editor: Kaposi’s varicelliform eruption (KVE) is a distinct viral skin disease which is characterized by disseminated vesiculopustules and erosions superimposed on the preexisting dermatosis. It is mostly caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 or 2 and rarely by vaccine‐virus or Coxsackie A16 virus. The KVE is normally described in atopic dermatitis (AD), but also observed in associ...

262 Table 1 summarizes the differentiating features of our case and these two conditions. Classically Bell’s palsy has been defined as idiopathic and the cause of the inflammatory process in the facial nerve remains uncertain. Recently attention has focused on infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) as a possible cause because research has found elevated HSV-1 titers in affected pati...

Vol. 27, No. 3, 2015 345 Received February 4, 2014, Revised June 24, 2014, Accepted for publication July 20, 2014 Corresponding author: Seray Külcü Çakmak, Dermatology Clinic, Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Altındağ, Ankara, Turkey. Tel: 90-5324347169, Fax: 90-3123103460, E-mail: seraycakmak@ gmail.com This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Co...