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Skin lesions are often the most noticeable accompaniment to infectious diseases, and diagnosis of the common three childhood infectious diseases which are associated with a rash — measles, rubella (German measles) and chickenpox — is relatively easy. Points of particular value in differential diagnosis are in italics.
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Welsby, P.D. (1981). Superficial manifestations of infectious diseases. In: Infectious Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7248-6_12
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