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Infantile Acropustulosis in Six Immigrant Children
Author(s) -
Humeau Sophie,
Bureau Brigitte,
Litoux Pierre,
Stalder JeanFrançois
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
pediatric dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1525-1470
pISSN - 0736-8046
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1470.1995.tb00160.x
Subject(s) - medicine , scabies , pediatrics , dermatology
Infantile acropustulosis is a recurrent, pruriginous, vesiculopustular eruption of the palms and soles first described in 1979. We report six cases of infantile acropustulosis in recently emigrated children treated for scabies. Clinical follow‐up was obtained by questionnaire addressed to patients'families and general practitioners. Our study suggests infantile acropustulosis is frequent in immigrant infants and could be a non‐specific hypersensitivity reaction to Sarcoptes scablel.