childhood exanthem (numbered diseases)

Introduction

Childhood exanthems observed & described between 1884 & 1900 + more.

Classification

• first disease (measles)
• second disease (scarlet fever)
• third disease (rubella, German measles)
• fourth disease (Dukes disease)
• fifth disease (erythema infectiosum)
• sixth disease (roseola)

Differential diagnosis

• Kawasaki disease

More general terms

• childhood disease
• exanthem

More specific terms

• Dukes disease (4th disease)
• erythema infectiosum (5th disease)
• measles (1st disease)
• roseola (exanthem subitum, 6th disease)
• rubella (German measles, 3rd disease)
• scarlet fever (2nd disease)