Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Viral Diseases of the Skin

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THE past decade has seen remarkable progress in knowledge of viruses pathogenic to man. Largely through the development of in vitro cell-culture technics it is now possible to propagate in the laboratory many viruses whose existence had been assumed because of the diseases that they produce — for example, measles, German measles, chicken pox. adenoviruses and common-cold viruses. In addition, the same technics have allowed the isolation of a number of agents, previously unknown, for which diseases in human beings have been sought: ECHO (enteric cytopathic human orphan) viruses and reoviruses are examples.Skin manifestations of viral infections have always . . .

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