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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026

In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]

Publication Details

Averugi [Japanese Journal of Allergy] 16, 178-222. 1967 CE.

Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was eventually called Kawasaki Disease.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

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Entry Number#12716
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Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Tokyo