Clindamycin Hypersensitivity and Management in a Case with Invasive Group A Streptococcal Cellulitis Caused by Chickenpox

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Chickenpox is commonly known as a benign exenthamatous disease of childhood that causes vesicular rashes. Symptomatic therapy is usual-ly adequate for chickenpox but in some cases secondary bacterial in-fections constitute the most common cause of morbidity in children. Primer varicella is an important predisposing factor for invasive group A streptococcal infection. In the treatment of invasive group A strepto-coccal infection generally accepted therapeutic management includes early administration of penicillin in combination with clindamycin, intra-venous immunoglobulins and early surgical intervention. In this report we describe a patient who developed clindamycin hypersensitivity dur-ing invasive group A streptococcal cellulitis management.