Abstract

IN 1944 Dr. Herbert A. Wenner1 wrote: integument of infants and children ill with eczema is frequently infected by bacterial opportunists and less frequently by filtrable viruses. The former is easily recognized; the latter, because of its infrequent occurrence, may easily be overlooked. The case presented below is that of an eight-month-old baby who had had intractable atopic eczema since the age of six days At the age of eight months his eczema became complicated by the disease now known as Kaposi's varicelliform eruption, which is said to be due to a filtrable virus. This skin disease was first . . .

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