Interferon α treatment of molluscum contagiosum in immunodeficiency. Issue 1 (1st January 1999)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hourihane, Jonathan; Hodges, Elizabeth; Smith, John; Keefe, Martin; Jones, Alison; Connett, Gary
• Is Part Of: Archives of disease in childhood. Volume 80:Issue 1(1999)
• Page Start: 77
• Page End: 79
• Publication Date: 1999-01-01
• Subjects: immunodeficiency -- molluscum contagiosum -- interferon α; Children -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Infants -- Diseases -- Periodicals; 618.920005
• DOI: 10.1136/adc.80.1.77
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-9888

Abstract

Abstract : A sister (aged 6 years) and brother (aged 8 years) presented four months apart with severe molluscum contagiosum. Both children demonstrated clinical and laboratory evidence of combined immunodeficiency. The extent of skin involvement by molluscum contagiosum precluded conventional treatment as well as intralesional interferon α (IFNα). Both subjects responded well to subcutaneous IFNα.