Simultaneous Chickenpox and Measles Infection among Migrant Children Who Stayed in Italy during the Second Half of June 2011

Igor Ivić-Hofman; Ante Cvitković; Bernard Kaić; Tatjana Vilibić-Čavlek; Nenad Pandak; Zorana Marić; Dragana Jurić

doi:10.4081/cp.2011.e113

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Case Report

10 November 2011

Simultaneous Chickenpox and Measles Infection among Migrant Children Who Stayed in Italy during the Second Half of June 2011

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Brodsko-Posavska County Institute of Public Health, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

Croatian National Institute of Public Health,Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Zagreb, Croatia

Croatian National Institute of Public Health,Virology Department, Zagreb, Croatia

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General Hospital Dr Josip Benčević, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

Clin. Pract.2011, 1(4), e113;https://doi.org/10.4081/cp.2011.e113

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Abstract

We are reporting on a household outbreak of measles, in which cases of simultaneous measles and chickenpox infection occured in children of a family who resided in Italy during the incubation period (June 2011). In three children, fever and generalized confluent macular rash were the dominant symptoms. Serology testing revealed simultaneous measles and chickenpox infection in four children.

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simultaneous chickenpox; measles infection

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