title: [Cough, fever and exanthema].
abstract: We report on a 29-year-old female patient who developed a dolent nodular exanthema on both lower legs after a prolonged respiratory infection of about 14 days. The chest X-ray showed a distinct enlargement of the left hilus and reduced transparency in the left upper pulmonary lobe. These findings were interpreted as pneumonia with para-infectious erythema nodosum. The serology showed IgM antibodies against chlamydia pneumoniae. Therapy with a macrolide antibiotic led to a rapidly improved general condition and also to the disappearance of the exanthema. There are some reports on single cases with erythema nodosum accompanying an infection with chlamydia pneumonia.
authors.affiliation: Department für Innere Medizin, Universitätsspital Zürich.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Czerwenka
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Steurer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D016993:Chlamydophila pneumoniae; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004893:Erythema Nodosum / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*