HIV Management Guide for Clinical Care

HIV Management Guide for Clinical Care

HIV-infectious Disease & Cancer

Management > HIV-infectious Disease & Cancer > Dermatological Conditions > Eosinophilic folliculitis, pruritic papular eruption and other inflammatory folliculitides > Diagnosis

Diagnosis

The differential diagnosis is difficult and includes the common causes found in patients without HIV such as insect bite reactions, scabies, dermatitis herpetiformis, drug reactions, atopic dermatitis and bacterial folliculitis. Skin biopsy for histopathological assessment be helpful, however EF and PPE have overlapping histological features and thus should be used primarily to support clinical diagnoses. (136 

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