Dukes disease (4th disease)

Introduction

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.

More general terms

• childhood exanthem (numbered diseases)

Additional terms

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