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Special Consideration of the Features of Primary Varicella Pneumonia

LOUIS WEINSTEIN, Ph.D., M.D.; RICHARD H. MEADE, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1956;98(1):91-99.

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That chicken pox is not invariably a mild, uncomplicated exanthem of childhood is better recognized now than it was in the past century, when it was thought that, because of its benign course, the disease was of clinical importance only because it could be confused with smallpox.¹ The presence of disseminated visceral lesions in varicella neonatorum emphasizes the fact that this may be a severe and even fatal infection.* The commonest complication of chicken pox is secondary bacterial invasion of the skin lesions;⁴ complications due to spread of the virus occur, however, and may produce even more serious problems, particularly since the responsible agent is not susceptible to any of the presently available antibiotic drugs.

Involvement of the respiratory tract during the course of chicken pox results either from secondary bacterial invasion or from extension of the viral infection. Pulmonary lesions in varicella have generally been regarded as . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Brookline, Mass.

From the Haynes Memorial and the Evans Memorial of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital and the Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 11, 1956.

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