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A 37‐year‐old man was first seen in November 1998 with a unilateral painful eruption of grouped small vesicles at the right side of his thorax. His general health was good. He was diagnosed as having herpes zoster, which was successfully, treated with oral acyclovir 800 mg, five times a day. Five months later, and after complete resolution of the herpes zoster, he developed a pustular eruption on exactly the same area of his first herpetic lesion. There was a diffuse distribution of pustules on the dorsal part of the dermatome, and a grouped pattern on the ventral side ( Fig. 1). A punch biopsy was performed for differential diagnosis of recurrent herpes zoster and folliculitis. Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonies were isolated from the bacterial culture of the pustular content. Cefadroxil monohydrate 500 mg twice a day and the application of fucidic acid ointment were prescribed. There was no …