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Mumps Associated with Coma or Exanthems

A Clinical Study Including an Instance of Dual Mumps and Varicella Infection

Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic and Graduate School and the Minnesota Department of Health

Kathleen A. Hable

Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic and Graduate School and the Minnesota Department of Health

Gary S. Carlson

Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic and Graduate School and the Minnesota Department of Health

J. Nevin Isenberg

Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic and Graduate School and the Minnesota Department of Health

Robert A. Siem

Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic and Graduate School and the Minnesota Department of Health

Mumps should be included in the differential diagnosis of a comatose patient, particularly when mumps is prevalent in the community. Mumps encephalitis sometimes occurs with normal CSF cell count and protein content.

Some exanthems associated with mumps may represent dual infections. That mumps virus alone may produce a rash is suggested by a report cited and by one patient in this series.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 11, No. 2, 88-92 (1972)
DOI: 10.1177/000992287201100214


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