Viral Infections 1

• • is a rash on the mucous membranes
  • characteristics of patients with viral infections causing foot and mouth disease, measles

  Enanthema
• • is a widespread rash occurring on the outside of the body
  • usually occurring in children.
  • can be caused by toxins, drugs, or microorganisms, or can result from autoimmune disease; breakout

  Exanthema
• • An extremely contagious exanthematous childhood disease
  • acute onset
  • breastfed babies of mothers who have a measles possess a relative immunity for the first 3 months of life


  Measles
• Causative agent of Measles

  • Paramyxo virus
  • Rubeola/measles virus
• puffiness of the eyelids with red linear congestion of the lower conjunctiva

  Stimson sign
• = pathognomonic enanthem of measles located at the buccal mucosa ( inner part of the cheeks )

  = characterized by fine red spots with bluish white spots on the center

  Koplik's spots
• • an acute contagious disease
  • Essentially a mild childhood disease, the danger actually being congenital defects in the newborn

  German Measles
• Causative agent of German Measles

  Pseudoparamyxo Virus (Rubella/Toga Virus)
• • most highly contagious childhood disease
  • affects adults more severely than children
  • one attack confers lifelong immu

  Varicella
• Causative Agent of Chicken Pox (Varicella)

  • Varicella Zoster Virus
  • Herpes Virus Varicella
• • caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox
  • A dormant type of chickenpox
  • more often attacks adults rather than children

  Herpes Zoster
• Causative Agent of Herpes Zoster

  Varicella Zoster Virus
• Causative Agent of Poliomyelitis

  Picornavirus
• Causative Agent of Rabies

  Rabies virus
• caused by arbovirus infection transmitted by mosquito

  Arboviral Encephalitis: Japanese B Encephalitis
• Causative agent of arboviral encephalitis: japanese b encephalitis

  Flavivirus