Variola minor in Bragança Paulista county, 1956. Observations on the clinical course of variola minor and on pregnancy in women with the disease
Megale, P.; Angulo, J.J.; Pederneiras, C.A.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique et de Ses Filiales 72(1): 11-20
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 498383 Document Number: 4870
Occasional observations on the clinical course of 485 cases of variola minor composing an epidemic are reported. 17% of the cases showed a complication. Otitis was observed in one case. An erythematous rash limited to the upper chest, neck and head appeared, instead of the pock eruption, after the pre-eruptive phase, in a previously vaccinated case. Convulsions, drowsiness, stupor, delusions, dizziness or deafness were observed in 23 patients whose individual characteristics are also presented. One of these cases showed a definite neurologicl syndrome: encephalitis. Neurologic complications were mostly seen in patients with medium to severe variola minor. Neither abortion nor death were seen among 4 pregnant women who developed variola minor, even though one of them delivered, on term, a dead foetus, 4 months after developing variola minor.
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