Volume 33, Issue 2 pp. e140-e142
Brief Report

Recurrent Coxsackievirus Infection in a Patient with Lamellar Ichthyosis

William E. Damsky M.D., Ph.D.

William E. Damsky M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Jonathan S. Leventhal M.D.

Jonathan S. Leventhal M.D.

Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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David Khalil M.D.

David Khalil M.D.

Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Matthew D. Vesely M.D., Ph.D.

Matthew D. Vesely M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Brittany G. Craiglow M.D.

Brittany G. Craiglow M.D.

Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Leonard M. Milstone M.D.

Leonard M. Milstone M.D.

Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Keith A. Choate M.D., Ph.D.

Corresponding Author

Keith A. Choate M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Address correspondence to Keith A. Choate, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, LCI 501, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT 06520, or e-mail: [email protected].Search for more papers by this author
First published: 29 January 2016
Citations: 2

Abstract

We describe a case of coxsackievirus (CV) A6 infection in a patient with lamellar ichthyosis followed by subsequent CV A8 infection within the same year. Atypical cutaneous features characterized the infection. This observation, combined with the rapidity with which reinfection occurred, suggests that the natural history of CV infection may be altered in patients with underlying ichthyoses.

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