[A case of Kawasaki disease. Case report]

The Authors describe the case of a little girl from Buenos Aires that presents, as regards the clinical picture and the course, the features of Kawasaki illness. It is the first case described in Calabria. The Authors come to the hypothesis that Kawasaki illness, could be a benign variant of periarteritis nodosa, caused from an infections noxa (Rickettsie?).