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Time trends in pediatric hospitalizations for varicella infection are associated with climatic changes: a 22-year retrospective study in a tertiary Greek referral center. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The transmission rate of air-borne infectious diseases may vary secondary to climate conditions. The study assessed time trends in the seasonality of hospitalized varicella cases in a temperate region in relation to climatic parameters ...
Elena Critselis, Panagiotis T Nastos, Kalliopi Theodoridou, Maria Theodoridou, Maria N Tsolia, Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Vassiliki Papaevangelou   +6 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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Neonatal stroke due to varicella arteriopathy [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2015
Varicella zoster is one of the common infective etiological factors known to produce arteriopathy of cerebral vasculature. Varicella zoster infection spreads transaxonally first to the adventitia and later transmurally to intima.
Sampath Kumar N.S., Umamaheswara Reddy V., Amit Agrawal, Ganesh V., Mithilesh A.   +4 more
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The impact of varicella vaccination: A 2005–2019 interrupted time series analysis

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023
Varicella is an acute, highly contagious disease in susceptible individuals and is preventable through vaccination. This study aimed to determine the impact of varicella vaccination on hospitalizations and complications at a pediatric reference hospital ...
Katherina U. Miranda, Rodrigo DeAntonio, Ximena Norero, Dora Estripeaut   +3 more
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Entrapment of viral capsids in nuclear PML cages is an intrinsic antiviral host defense against varicella-zoster virus. [PDF]

, 2011
The herpesviruses, like most other DNA viruses, replicate in the host cell nucleus. Subnuclear domains known as promyelocytic leukemia protein nuclear bodies (PML-NBs), or ND10 bodies, have been implicated in restricting early herpesviral gene expression.
Baiker Armin, Sommer, Marvin, Nour Adel M., Sen Nandini, Wang, Li, Leigh Zerboni, Nandini Sen, Reichelt, Mike, Adel M. Nour, Mike Reichelt, Zerboni, Leigh, Marvin Sommer, Perrino, John, Reichelt Mike, Arvin Ann M., Arvin, Ann M., Ann M Arvin, Nour, Adel M., Baiker, Armin, John Perrino, Zerboni Leigh, Ann M. Arvin, Sommer Marvin, Adel M Nour, Perrino John, Li Wang, Armin Baiker, Sen, Nandini, Wang Li   +28 more
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Neonatal Varicella [PDF]

Journal of Perinatology, 2001
Neonatal varicella is mostly caused by maternal chickenpox acquired during the last 3 weeks of pregnancy. Transplacentally transmitted infections occur in the first 10 to 12 days of life, whereas chickenpox after that time is most likely acquired by postnatal infection.
A, Sauerbrei, P, Wutzler
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Varicella- and herpes zoster-related health outcomes over 50 years, by vaccination strategy ^A.

, 2023
Varicella- and herpes zoster-related health outcomes over 50 years, by vaccination strategy A.
Thomas leFevre (15187739), Manjiri Pawaskar (8718750), Carsten Schade Larsen (11504137), Salome Samant (7462298), Colleen Burgess (11099162)   +4 more
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The epidemiology of varicella and effectiveness of varicella vaccine in Ganyu, China: a long-term community surveillance study

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The real-world data of long-term protection under moderate vaccination coverage is limited. This study aimed to evaluate varicella epidemiology and the long-term effectiveness under moderate coverage levels in Ganyu District, Lianyungang City,
Lingxian Qiu, Sheng Liu, Minglei Zhang, Guohua Zhong, Siying Peng, Jiali Quan, Hongyan Lin, Xiaowen Hu, Kongxin Zhu, Xingcheng Huang, Junchao Peng, Yue Huang, Shoujie Huang, Ting Wu, Jinbo Xu, Zifang Dong, Qi Liang, Wei Wang, Yingying Su, Jun Zhang, Ningshao Xia   +20 more
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Seroepidemiology of Varicella and value of self-reported history of Varicella infection in Iranian medical students [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives: We conducted this study to assess the seroprevalence of Varicella zoster virus (VZV) antibodies in a group of Iranian medical sciences students that were at risk of Varicella and the value of self-reported history as a predictor of immunity ...
Allami, Abbas, Najar, Azade, Abbas Allami, Mohammadi, Navid, Navid Mohammadi, Azade Najar   +5 more
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Epidemiological characteristics of varicella from 2000 to 2008 and the impact of nationwide immunization in Taiwan

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2011
Background Varicella has an important impact on public health. Starting in 2004 in Taiwan, nationwide free varicella vaccinations were given to 1-year-old children. Methods Our study investigated the epidemiological characteristics of varicella from 2000
Chang Luan-Yin, Huang Li-Min, Chang I-Shou, Tsai Fang-Yu   +3 more
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