Varicella precipitating febrile ulceronecrotic Mucha-Habermann disease.

Abstract

We report a 9-year-old boy with skin lesions clinically and histologically compatible with pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta that evolved to the severe variant febrile ulceronecrotic Mucha-Habermann disease and finally to pityriasis lichenoides chronica. Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) was isolated in culture medium from the skin lesions and serum serology was positive for VZV. This is the first time that a virus has been isolated in culture in this condition.

• Authors: Juan A Hervás, Ana Martín-Santiago, Daniel Hervás, Cristina Gómez, Joaquín Dueñas, Jordi Reina
• Journal: Pediatric dermatology (Pediatr Dermatol) Vol. 30 Issue 6 Pg. e216-7 ( 2013) ISSN: 1525-1470 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 23106817 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
• Copyright: © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Topics

• Chickenpox (complications)
• Child
• Fever (virology)
• Herpes Simplex (virology)
• Herpesvirus 3, Human (isolation & purification)
• Humans
• Male
• Necrosis (virology)
• Pityriasis Lichenoides (virology)
• Skin Ulcer (virology)