Red Rashes of Childhood

Question 1

Oval vesicles on palms, soles, and oral mucosa

Answer 1

Coxsackie virus

Question 2

Several days of high fever followed by rose-colored macules

Answer 2

HHV-6

Roseola/exanthem subitum

Question 3

Cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, Koplik spots–>rash that starts at the head and moves down

Answer 3

Measles

Paramyxovirus

Question 4

Slapped-cheek rash

Answer 4

Parvovirus B19 (5th disease)

Question 5

Macules begin at head and move down

Postauricular lymphadenopathy

Answer 5

Rubella

Question 6

Erythematous, sandpaper-like rash with fever and sore throat

Answer 6

Scarlet fever

Strep pyogenes

Question 7

Vesicular rash beginning on trunk; spreads to face and extremities with lesions of different ages

Answer 7

VZV