Measles
Background
- 10d incubation period
- 3d prodromal period
Diagnosis
- URI symptoms: high fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza
- Rash
- Begins 4 days after onset of symptoms
- Spreads from central to peripheral
- Initially is erythematous and maculopapular; rapidly progresses to confluence (face)
- Lasts 7d
- Koplik spots
- Pathognomonic enanthem
- White to bluish-white lesions w/ red base on buccal mucosa