Exanthem of measles and clues to its diagnosis: experience of a nosocomial outbreak in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Fang-Wen Tseng (Author), Yhu-Chering Huang (Author), Su-Chin Shen (Author), I-Hsin Shih (Author), Chih-Hsun Yang (Author), Hsiu-Cheng Hsu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Taiwan has been experiencing a resurgence of measles since the beginning of 2009. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical presentations of eight confirmed measles cases during a nosocomial outbreak, in order to identify diagnostic clues. The exan-them was polymorphous and non-specific in terms of i...