Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple 6th Edition

Athe face and trunk, spreading to the en-tire body, including mucous membranes (pharynx, vagina, etc.). The skin vesicles that form are described as dew on a rose petal: a red base with a fluid-filled vesi-cle on top. The fluid becomes cloudy, the vesicles rup-ture, and the lesions scab over. Multiple vesicles arise in patches (crops), and one crop will form as another crop scabs over. So there are lesions in different stages! The vesicles will all scab in about 1 week, and the pa-tient then ceases to be contagious.