1 Children's Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The diagnosis of drug eruption frequently poses a challenge. It becomes all the more difficult when there is an epidemic illness with a considerable number of patients having a similar exanthem, as Dr. Wolf reports. Even though four of his patients (who were all girls) received ampicillin, I doubt if these could be drug rashes since those without drugs also had similar rash. .Also, during this time, there were 56 other cases reported with a similar rash.