Exanthema subitum: What Patients Should Know
By Dr. Valeria Kowalski, MD · · Infectious Disease
This article from Weyland-Yutani Health System's Infectious Disease service line explains exanthema subitum in plain language.
About this topic
Topic: exanthema subitum. A viral infectious disease that results_in infection in infants and children, located_in skin, has_material_basis_in Human betaherpesvirus 6B (Roseolovirus humanbeta6b) or 7 (Roseolovirus humanbeta7) and has_symptom sudden high fever, and has_symptom red rash that occurs first on the trunk then spreading to legs and neck.
Related care
- pharmacotherapy
- potassium-sparing diuretic agent therapy
- muscarinic antagonist therapy
- vitamin E supplementation
- gonorrhea testing
- biopsy of hypothalamus
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