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KISHAN El" AL: PERINATAL OUTCOME AT BENGHAZI
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CAUSAL AGENT FOR EXANTHEM SUBITUM
Exanthem subitum (roseola infantum) is a common disease of infancy charactedsed by
high fever for a few days and the appearance of a rash coinciding with subsidence of the fever.
Symptoms ae usually mild, but febrile convulsions have been reported. Since haematogenous
transmission of infection was documented in the 1950s, it has been widely believed that the disease is caused by a virus. However, the causal agent had not been identified.
A virus was isolated from the peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients with exanthem
subitum, cultured successfully in cord blood lymphocytes, and shown to be anfigenicaUy related
to human herpesvirus-6 CrIHV-6). Morphological features, as studied by thin-section
electronmicroscopy, resembled those of herpes group viruses. Convalescent phase serum samples,
tested against the new viral antigen and HHV-6 antigen, showed seroconversion. The r~sults
strongly suggest that the newly isolated virus is identical or closely related to HHV-6 and is the
causal agent for exanthem subitum.
Abstrated from