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cord-282355-urys21ry	Ortega-Quijano, Daniel	Reply to “Varicella-like exanthem as a specific COVID-19-associated skin manifestation: multicenter case series of 22 patients”: discussing specificity	2020-05-04		.txt	text/plain	552	36	54	title: Reply to "Varicella-like exanthem as a specific COVID-19-associated skin manifestation: multicenter case series of 22 patients": discussing specificity Title: Reply to "Varicella-like exanthem as a specific COVID-19-associated skin manifestation: multicenter case series of 22 patients": discussing specificity Daniel Ortega-Quijano, MD 1 , Juan Jimenez-Cauhe, MD 1 , Patricia Burgos-Blasco, MD 1 , Natalia Jimenez-Gomez, MD 1 , Diego Fernandez-Nieto, MD 1 . The positive predictive value, that is, the probability that a person with a varicella-like rash has COVID-19, is much more relevant, as a high value would justify SARS-CoV-2 testing. For us, the main contribution of the study by Marzano and colleagues is that, with all exanthems currently having a high positive predictive value for COVID-19, that of varicella-like rash is probably the highest since vesicular rash is more specific for viral disease than others 3 . Varicella-like exanthem as a specific COVID-19-associated skin manifestation: multicenter case series of 22 patients	./cache/cord-282355-urys21ry.txt	./txt/cord-282355-urys21ry.txt