Varicella (Chickenpox) Images
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Image of boy with chickenpox
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Image of a girl treated at the New York – Presbyterian Hospital with skin lesions on the back due to chickenpox
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Elderly man with chickenpox
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Left foot of elderly man with chickenpox
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Right lateral knee region of elderly man with chickenpox
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Left shoulder region of elderly man with chickenpox
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Bedridden, elderly man with chickenpox
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Electron micrograph of a Varicella (Chickenpox) Virus
Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Transmission electron micrograph of varicella-zoster virions from vesicle fluid of patient with chickenpox
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Girl with secondary skin infection due to chickenpox
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Chickenpox lesions on palm and wrist
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Chickenpox lesions on torso of four-year-old child, day 5 of illness
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Chickenpox lesions on chest on day 5 of the illness
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Face of a three-month-old boy on the second day of chickenpox rash
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Face of a patient with chickenpox, fifth day
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Patient with chickenpox demonstrating the typical rash on day eight. Notice that most scabs have fallen off
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Many pocks present on a patient’s back
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30-year-old female with acute chickenpox infection (view of back)
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30-year-old female with acute chickenpox infection (view of face)
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Adolescent female with varicella lesions in various stages
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Adolescent female with varicella lesions in various stages
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Varicella with scleral lesions and bulbar conjunctivitis
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Child with varicella lesions on the palate
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Child with varicella lesions, frontal view
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Bullous varicella
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Varicella in a child with recent group A streptococcal pharyngitis
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Child with superinfected varicella lesions
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9 year old who developed?Staphylococcus aureus?infection of her varicella lesions
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Infant with necrotizing fasciitis, a complication of varicella
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Infant with varicella
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Ten-year-old boy with varicella
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Child with varicella
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Infant with facial varicella lesions
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Chickenpox in the mouth
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Chickenpox lesions on the skin
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Chickenpox, bullous
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Chickenpox, bullous
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Chickenpox, hemorrhagic
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Chickenpox, hemorrhagic
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Chickenpox, hemorrhagic
Copyright Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong For permission to use image, contact Dr. CW Leung at:?leungcw@ha.org.hk
Chickenpox, hemorrhagic
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