Dukes' disease
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Dukes' disease, named after Clement Dukes,[1] also known as fourth disease[2] or Filatov-Dukes' disease (after Nil Filatov),[3] is an exanthem. It is distinguished from measles or forms of rubella, though it was considered as a form of viral rash.[2] Although Dukes identified it as a separate entity, it is thought not to be different from scarlet fever caused by exotoxin-producing Streptococcus pyogenes after Keith Powell proposed equating it with the condition currently known as staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome in 1979.[2][4]
Fourth disease | |
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Other names | Filatov-Dukes' disease |
Specialty | Infectious diseases |
It was never associated with a specific pathogen,[5] and the terminology is no longer in use.[2] However, a mysterious rash of unknown cause in school children often gives rise to the question of whether it could be Dukes' disease.[6]