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Cutaneous lesions caused by the yellow fever vaccine – have you ever seen them?

SUMMARY

The Yellow Fever virus was isolated in 1927 and the disease is considered endemic and epidemic in tropical regions of South America and Africa, with thousands of new cases reported annually. Several side effects of the vaccine have already been reported. Although reports of skin rash secondary to the vaccine range from 0 to 15%, no image or detailed description of the lesions were found in the literature. Here we describe a rash on a toddler vaccinated to travel.

KEYWORDS:
Exanthema; Drug eruptions; Adverse drug reaction reporting systems; Yellow fever vaccine

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