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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2007

Mother of a newborn child suffers from chronoc pyelonephritis. She survived acute respiratory viral infection directly before labour. Delivery was at term, the period before discharge of waters was prolonged. On the 2-nd day the child got erythematous rash, later on - vesicles about 1 cm large with seropurulent content. Nikolsky's symptom is positive. Dissection of vesicles results in erosions. The child is inert, body temperature is subfebrile. What is the most probable diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Pseudofurunculosis
  2. Sepsis
  3. Vesicular pustulosis
  4. Impetigo neonatorum
  5. Ritter’s dermatitis
Correct answer

Impetigo neonatorum

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