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Dukes disease (4th disease)

One of the original childhood exanthems observed & described between 1884 & 1900, never associated with a specific pathogen. In 1979, Keith Powell proposed that 4th disease = Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome.

Related

erythema infectiosum (5th disease) measles (1st disease) roseola (exanthem subitum, 6th disease) rubella (German measles, 3rd disease) scarlet fever (2nd disease)

General

childhood exanthem (numbered diseases)

References

  1. Morans DM and Katz AR The "Fourth Disease" of Childhood: Re-evaluation of a nonexistent disease. Am. J. Epidemiol. (1991) 134 (6): 628-640 http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/134/6/628.short
  2. Wikipedia: Dukes' disease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukes'_disease