Exanthema subitum: What Patients Should Know
By Dr. Amara Dang, DO · · Infectious Disease
Patients often ask us about exanthema subitum. Here is what our Infectious Disease clinicians want you to know.
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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.
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Related care
- pharmacotherapy
- potassium-sparing diuretic agent therapy
- muscarinic antagonist therapy
- vitamin E supplementation
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