Homework Help: microbiology

Posted by Christian on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 9:04pm.

A woman brings her 6 month old son to the dr. The chief complaint is a group of lesions on the child's back. In the exam room, a toddler is leaning over playing with the baby who is giggling and appears healthy. The baby was breast fed from birth through his 4th month. The spots on the baby's back popped up 2 days ago and the baby hasn't had a fever and seems well. When you pick the baby up there are 7 to 8 blisterlike lesions localized to the left of the baby's spine. They have clear fluid in them, the lesions are diagnostic.

My question is what are the lesions diagnostic of? The lesions indicate that the child experienced a common childhood illness earlier: Which one?

microbiology - bobpursley, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 9:21pm
Hmmmmm. http://images.google.com/images?q=chickenpox&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00177/pox385_177027a.jpg
microbiology - Christian, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 9:41pm
I wasn't sure if it was varicella because i read articles that said chicken pox was red or pink and usually occurs on the stomachs of babies. Just to be clear the leasions are diagnostic of varicella and the child must have experienced chickenpox before right?
microbiology - bobpursley, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 9:44pm
yes.
microbiology - bobpursley, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 9:52pm
Here is another possibility. however, shingles in babies usually caused noticeable discomfort in the child, and fever.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_4963185_symptoms-shingles-babies.html
microbiology - Rbinca, Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 10:21pm
bacteria

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