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Identifying optimal vaccination scenarios to reduce varicella zoster virus transmission and reactivation

BMC Medicine, 2022
Background Varicella zoster virus (VZV) is one of the eight known human herpesviruses. Initial VZV infection results in chickenpox, while viral reactivation following a period of latency manifests as shingles.
Kevin M Bakker, Marisa C Eisenberg, Robert J Woods, Micaela E Martinez   +3 more
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Chickenpox Vaccination: Knowledge and Attitude of Child-Bearing Women of Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2020
 Chickenpox is a common childhood disease which is highly contagious. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that in countries where chickenpox is an important public health burden, chickenpox vaccination should be introduced into their routine ...
K.E. Edje, P.Y. Toloyai, J.C. Mordi, T.M.E. Daubry, E.G. Moke, A.I. Omogbiya, E.E. Samson   +6 more
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Chickenpox Appearing in Previously Vaccinated Individuals [PDF]

Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2009
Chicken pox is an acute, highly infectious disease caused by varicella- zoster virus. It occurs primarily among children under ten years of age. One attack gives durable immunity and second attacks are rare [1]. Varicella vaccine (OKA strain) is available in the Indian market.
AL Das, V Suryam
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Trend of chickenpox incident cases through absent vaccination in Najaf Governorate-Iraq from January 2009 to May 2014

Kufa Journal for Nursing Sciences, 2020
Background: Chickenpox infection is a common and highly contagious viral disease caused by the varicella zoster virus. It is highly endemic disease with increasing annual incidence in absence of varicella immunization program in Iraq.
Abdulkareem A. Mahmood, Tamara M. Ibrahim   +1 more
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New realities of chickenpox

Медицинский совет, 2022
Introduction. The causative agent of chickenpox is ubiquitous. In children, especially with a burdened premorbid background, there is a high incidence of severe forms and complications.Aim.
A. M. Zakirova, N. A. Tambova, E. A. Samorodnova, O. M. Lazareva, N. V. Ivanova   +4 more
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Intranasal delivery of a rationally attenuated SARS-CoV-2 is immunogenic and protective in Syrian hamsters

Nature Communications, 2022
Examples of effective live attenuated viral vaccines include the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, as well as the chickenpox vaccine. In this work, the authors engineer a live attenuated SARS-CoV-2 virus that demonstrates attenuation in numerous in ...
Shufeng Liu, Charles B. Stauft, Prabhuanand Selvaraj, Prabha Chandrasekaran, Felice D’Agnillo, Chao-Kai Chou, Wells W. Wu, Christopher Z. Lien, Clement A. Meseda, Cyntia L. Pedro, Matthew F. Starost, Jerry P. Weir, Tony T. Wang   +12 more
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Varicella vaccine dose depended effectiveness and waning among preschool children in Hong Kong

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
In Hong Kong, universal varicella vaccination was introduced in July 2014 with a two-dose schedule but the vaccines had been available in the private market since 1996.
Yung-Wai Desmond Chan, W John Edmunds, Hong-Lam Chan, Miu-Ling Wong, Ka-Wing Albert Au, Shuk-Kwan Chuang, Albert Jan van Hoek, Stefan Flasche   +7 more
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Severe chickenpox disease and seroprevalence in Sweden – implications for general vaccination [PDF]

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
To describe the current panorama of severe chickenpox disease and seroprevalence in Sweden, as a basis for the approaching decision on universal vaccination.Patients discharged with an International Classification of Diseases 10th revision-code for chickenpox (B01-B01.9) in eight pediatric and infectious diseases departments in Stockholm and Gothenburg
K Widgren, L Persson Berg, A Mörner, L Lindquist, A Tegnell, J Giesecke, M Studahl   +6 more
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Where are the vesicles? A case report of Ramsay Hunt syndrome [PDF]

Malaysian Family Physician, 2022
A 1-year-10-month-old child developed left-sided Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS) without vesicles 1 month after an episode of varicella zoster infection. No ear symptoms, including hearing loss, tinnitus, or imbalance, were reported.
Farhan Fader, Hardip Singh Gendeh, Bee See Goh   +2 more
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Chickenpox, chickenpox vaccination, and shingles [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2006
AbstractChickenpox in the United Kingdom, where vaccination is not undertaken, has had a stable epidemiology for decades and is a routine childhood illness. Because of vaccination, chickenpox is now a rarity in the USA. In the UK vaccination is not done because introduction of a routine childhood vaccination might drive up the age at which those who ...
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