Erythema Infectiosum: an Outbreak of "slapped Cheek" Disease in North Devon

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Journal Br Med J

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1976 Apr 10

PMID 1260394

Citations 8

Authors

H E Cramp

B D Armstrong

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Abstract

An outbreak of erythema infectiosum (fifth disease; megalerythema epidemicum) which occurred in a small north Devon town (population 3600) during the spring of 1975 is reported. All fifty-eight cases displayed the diagnostic "slapped cheek" appearance. Virological studies gave disappointingly negative results.

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