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## Abstract The common clinical presentations of herpes simplex virus (HSV) and molluscum contagiosum (MC) are well known to dermatologists. However, folliculitis due to these viruses is an infrequently reported entity and might be considered a sign of immunosuppression [such as infection with human immunodeficiency virus, (HIV)], especially in cases of folliculitis due to MC. The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical and histopathological characteristics of viral folliculitis due to HSV and MC. We retrospectively collected all our cases with histologically proven folliculitis due to HSV and MC between 1994 and 1999. A total of seven patients aged 7–54 years was identified. Prior to establishment of the diagnosis of folliculitis due to HSV and MC, they were treated with topical antibiotics or topical steroids, without improvement. Tentative diagnoses were bacterial folliculitis, syringoma, perifollicular fibrosis, contact dermatitis or pseudolymphoma. Biopsy of the lesions revealed multiple molluscum bodies in the follicular epithelium with sparing of the epidermis in four patients, and ballooning degeneration and intranuclear viral inclusions in the follicular epithel

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Author

K-A. Jang; S-H. Kim; J-H. Choi; K-J. Sung; K-C. Moon; J-K. Koh

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)