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MD, FAAD, FAAP

Which patients are at higher risk of contracting molluscum contagiosum?

Warts And Molluscum

You. Definitely the pediatric age group. This is, I would say, primarily a pediatric condition that we're managing. Rarely, you can see molescom develop in adulthood as well. Oftentimes these are adults that are immunocompromised in some fashion. They're immunosuppressed, they have some other genetic predisposition, or they have HIV or some reason why they're susceptible. But outside of that, for the majority, most of all cases that I see occur in the pediatric age group and some into young adolescents. We know it can be transmitted from young adults as a sexually transmitted disease, but in my practice it's primarily for the children.

Which patients are at higher risk of contracting molluscum contagiosum?

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