Rapid Review: Molluscum Contagiosum
Reviewed February 2024
Molluscum Contagiosum
- Risk factors: common in childhood, can occur in healthy adults and spread via direct skin-to-skin contact or fomites
- Sx: small skin-colored papules, can be associated with pruritus or surrounding inflammation
- PE will show multiple waxy, dome-shaped papules with umbilicated appearance
- Caused by poxvirus
- Self-limiting course
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