MICROBIOLOGY - CONNECT ACCESS
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Author: Cowan
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Chapter 18, Problem 12TF
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Fifth disease is precisely called as erythema infectiosum; it is named so because hundred years ago, the doctors recognized this as the fifth of the diseases that causes rashes in children. The first four diseases that cause rashes were scarlet fever, measles, rubella, and another rash called “fourth disease”.
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