RT Book, Section A1 Shah, Kara N. A2 Shah, Samir S. A2 Kemper, Alex R. A2 Ratner, Adam J. SR Print(0) ID 1157320272 T1 Rash T2 Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2e YR 2019 FD 2019 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259861536 LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157320272 RD 2024/11/09 AB Rash is a nonspecific term that may refer to many acquired skin conditions. As a visual speciality, dermatology comprises several categories of skin disease that are based primarily on clinical morphology and pathophysiology. Dermatologic conditions that are of primary interest from an infectious diseases perspective include bacterial and mycobacterial infections, fungal infections, protozoal infections, viral infections, reactive erythemas, drug- and virus-induced hypersensitivity syndromes, and vasculitic diseases and purpura (Table 17-1).