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

Abstract

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 . . .