Síndrome purpúrico petequial de miembros inferiores debido a Parvovirus B19 / Petechial purpuric socks syndrome due to parvovirus B19

ABSTRACT

Human Parvovirus B19 is common and widespread. Major manifestatiions of B19 infection are eruption characteristic of fifth disease, transient aplastic crisis, rheumatic-like diseases and, in the immunocompromised host, chronic or recurrent bone marrow infection and persistent skin lesions...Wi presented a case of petechial purpuric eruption in a socks distribution in an adult male with acute Parvovirus B19 infection. The patient had atypical clinical presentations comprising an lower-extremity palpable purpura. We report a atypical case of petechial-purpuric socks syndrome in which primary infection by Parvovorus B19 was demonstrated by seroconversion to this virus, parvovirus B19 DNA was algo identified by polymerase chain reaction methods in the sera of the patient