Today, I review, link to, and embed CDC‘s “Clinical Overview of Measles: Diagnosis, Laboratory Testing and Outbreak Response”.
All that follows is from the above resource.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Mar 5, 2025CDC’s Dr. Dan Filardo discusses clinical overview of measles, differentiate the clinical presentation of measles from other viral causes of febrile rash, discuss the laboratory diagnosises of measles, and recognized the importance of measles vaccination. Includes images of children with measles infection. Continuing education (CE) is available for this course.
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The measles rash may be difficult to see depending on the patient skin tone so the macular papular rash may be more
difficult to identify on darker skin tones the redness may not be as evident the skin may appear hyperpigmented as
opposed to red or arthemius with darker or corpal macules and papules and the rash as it progresses can progress to scarring with hypopigmentation. So to illustrate that we can look at measel rash on different skin tones. On lighter skin the rash
redness is pretty clearly visible. However the redness may be less apparent on a darker skin tone as seen in the
middle picture. And finally on the right photo, on darker skin the rash really may be difficult to see if looking only for
redness or athema, you may not appreciate much of a rash at all and the most prominent sign may be the papules as seen here on the forehead
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