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The diagnosis of the invasion of measles from a study of the exanthema as it appears on the buccal mucous membrane.

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Arch. Pediat., 13, 918-22. 1896 CE.

Koplik, American pediatrician, was the first to note and report on “Koplik’s spots”, the buccal spots which are an important early diagnostic sign in measles.

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