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Measles Virus was Present in the Inner Cell of the Acrosyringium in the Skin Rash
Author(s) -
Yanagihara Makoto,
Fujii Toshiki,
Mochizuki Takashi,
Ishizaki Hiroshi,
Sata Tetsutaro
Publication year - 1998
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.1525-1470.1998.tb01394.x
Subject(s) - measles virus , measles , maculopapular rash , virology , rash , virus , medicine , polyclonal antibodies , antibody , immunology , dermatology , vaccination
A case of measles in a 26‐year‐old Japanese man is reported. A skin specimen taken on the third eruptive day from a maculopapular eruption on his chest was immunohistopathologically and electron microscopically examined using a rabbit polyclonal antibody against the nucleocapsid protein of the measles virus. The measles virus antigen was found in the inner cells of the acrosyringium and hair follicles. The measles virus nucleocapsid was electron microscopically identified in the nuclei of the inner cells of the acrosyringium. The findings suggest that the sweat from skin lesions might contain the measles virus.