ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a brief list of the most important cutaneous manifestations, which may be associated with fever, taking into account their classification based upon the predominant individual lesions found. The clinical manifestations of the ulceroglandular type depends on the portal of entry. Considering the immunocompromised host with skin lesions due to bacteremic Gram-negative bacillary infections, the febrile state may appear a couple of days prior to the development of skin manifestations. The fever is uncommon in the well-known major bullous diseases of worldwide distribution like pemphigus, bullous pemphigoid, or dermatitis herpetiformis. In the chronic septicemic form of Meningococcal septicema, in which purpura is characteristic, with small, scanty petechiae spread on limbs or trunk, sometimes developing into maculopapular or nodular type, an indetermined febrile illness may be present for a couple of weeks. Herpes gestationis, a rare polymorphous bullous eruption appearing in the first or subsequent pregnancies and resembling bullous pemphigoid or dermatitis herpetiformis.
