Molluscum contagiosum

Abstract

Molluscum contagiosum (MC) is a common childhood viral infection caused by a large, double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid poxvirus. A 22-year-old male patient presents with an infected lesion on his right pinna since the last 1 month, which oozed out a cheesy material on pressing and clinically a sebaceous cyst was suspected, However, on careful histopathological examination a diagnosis of MC was made.

Keywords

• Deoxyribonucleic acid pox virus
• inclusion bodies
• molluscum contagiosum