Confluent and reticulated papillomatosis

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| synonyms = Familial cutaneous papillomatosis, Familial occurrence of confluent and reticulated papillomatosis{{cite book |author=Odom, Richard B. |author2=Davidsohn, Israel |author3=James, William D. |author4=Henry, John Bernard |author5=Berger, Timothy G. |author6=Clinical diagnosis by laboratory methods |author7=Dirk M. Elston |title=Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology |url=https://archive.org/details/andrewsdiseasess00mdwi_659 |url-access=limited |publisher=Saunders Elsevier |year=2006 |page=[https://archive.org/details/andrewsdiseasess00mdwi_659/page/n217 207] |isbn=0-7216-2921-0 |edition=10th}}{{OMIM|167900}}

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Confluent and reticulated papillomatosis is an uncommon but distinctive acquired ichthyosiform dermatosis characterized by persistent dark, scaly, papules and plaques that tend to be localized predominantly on the central trunk.{{cite book |author=Freedberg, Irwin M. |author2=Fitzpatrick, Thomas B. |title=Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine |publisher=McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division |location=New York |year=2003 |pages=494–5 |isbn=0-07-138076-0 |edition=6th}}

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Henri Gougerot and Alexandre Carteaud (1897 - 1980) originally described the condition in 1927.{{cite journal |vauthors=Gougerot H, Carteaud A |year=1927 |title=Papillomatose pigmentee innominee |journal=Bull Soc Fr Dermatol Syphilol. |volume=34 |pages=719}} The cause remains unknown, but the observation that the condition may clear with Minocycline[https://archive.today/20130105073841/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119290472/abstract Wiley Interscience] turned attention to an infectious agent. Actinomycete Dietzia strain X was isolated from one individual.{{cite journal |vauthors=Natarajan S, Milne D, Jones AL, Goodfellow M, Perry J, Koerner RJ |title=Dietzia strain X: a newly described Actinomycete isolated from confluent and reticulated papillomatosis |journal=Br. J. Dermatol. |volume=153 |issue=4 |pages=825–7 |date=October 2005 |pmid=16181469 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06785.x |s2cid=40122316 }} Other antibiotics found useful include azithromycin, fusidic acid, clarithromycin, erythromycin, tetracycline, and cefdinir.{{cite journal |author=Scheinfeld N |title=Confluent and reticulated papillomatosis : a review of the literature |journal=Am J Clin Dermatol |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=305–13 |year=2006 |pmid=17007541 |doi=10.2165/00128071-200607050-00004|s2cid=25749839 }}