Ocular complications in molluscum contagiosum.

MOLLUSCUM contagiosum is a skin condition caused by a large virus. It may spread through public swimmling baths, infected garments, and contaminated cosmetics and fingers, and may involve the face, hands, and genitalia. When the lid margin is involved, particularly the upper lid, it induces conjunctivitis which is follicular in nature, and is sometimes accompanied by keratitis which may simulate trachoma (Sorsby, 1951). Molluscum nodules in the bulbar conjunctiva were reported by Ballaban (1903) and Redslob (1927), and on the cornea by Quill (1940).