Case report: An atypical dengue rash involving the soles

Abstract

The cutaneous manifestation of dengue is a maculopapular blanchable erythema over the body that spares the palms and the soles. We report a case of serologically proven, uncomplicated dengue fever in a lady who developed macular morbilliform erythema with islands of sparing over the plantar regions of the bilateral soles on day 8 of disease. This phenomenon has not yet been reported in dengue literature.