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== Background == |
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* Pastia’s lines are deep red skin folds |
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== Clinical Manifestation == |
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*Most commonly associated with [[streptococcal pharyngitis]], with fever, malaise, and a sore throat |
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**Appears as a diffuse erythema or erythroderma |
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**Blanchable, with sandpaper texture |
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*May have petechiae starting 1 to 3 days after the rash, forming in the skin creases along Pastia lines |
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== Management == |
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* Treated with a 10-day course of [[penicillin]] (or [[clindamycin]], if penicillin-allergy) |
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[[Category:Infectious diseases]] |
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Latest revision as of 12:40, 18 August 2020
Background
- Caused by pyrogenic exotoxins (erythrogenic toxins) released by Streptococcus pyogenes that can be associated with potentially any streptococcal infection
Clinical Manifestation
- Most commonly associated with streptococcal pharyngitis, with fever, malaise, and a sore throat
- Rash appears on day 1 or 2 of illness, starting from trunk spreading to extremities
- Appears as a diffuse erythema or erythroderma
- Blanchable, with sandpaper texture
- Flushed face with circumoral pallor
- White strawberry tongue early in disease gives way to beefy red strawberry tongue later
- May have petechiae starting 1 to 3 days after the rash, forming in the skin creases along Pastia lines
Management
- Treated with a 10-day course of penicillin (or clindamycin, if penicillin-allergy)
