Measles:simplified notes

Causative organisms

—Paramyxovirus

Clinical features

  • Fever, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis
  • RASH
  • Maculopapular rash that spreads from head to f

Diagnosis

  • Leukopenia
  • Lymphopenia
    Fourfold rise in hemagglutinin inhibition antibody
  • A Complications:
  • Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
  • Vitamin A deficiency
  • Bronchiectasis
  • PNA
  • A Pneumonic:
  • Cough
  • Coryza
  • Conjunctivitis
    A Notes :
  • Koplik spots (red spots with bluish-white specks
    on buccal membrane) are pathognomonic

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