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A Rare Case of an Immunocompetent Male With Zoster Meningitis
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2020 Varicella zoster meningitis is an uncommon complication of herpes zoster, especially in immunocompetent patients. We report a case of a healthy 45-year-old male who developed aseptic meningitis as a result of reactivated varicella zoster virus infection.
Mohammed Ali Faluk MD +4 more
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A 46-year-old female presenting with worsening headache, nuchal rigidity and a skin rash in varicella zoster virus meningitis: a case report [PDF]
, 2009 Varicella zoster virus causes two distinct clinical diseases. Varicella is the primary infection and results from exposure of a person susceptible to the virus. The virus remains latent in cranial nerve ganglia, dorsal root ganglia, and autonomic ganglia
Kushawaha, Anurag +2 more
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001 Varicella-zoster virus. Arvin AM, Gershon AE. (Pp 531) UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-66024-6 If I were a betting man, and one could bet on such matters, I would stake the price of a new stethoscope that chicken pox will soon be a subject of media and thus public (and thus political) interest, at least in the UK.
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Shoulder pain due to cervical radiculopathy: an underestimated long-term complication of herpes zoster virus reactivation? [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose To evaluate if herpes zoster virus (HZV) reactivation may be considered in the aetiology of cervical radiculopathy. Methods The study group was composed of 110 patients (52 M-58F;mean age ± SD:46.5 ± 6.12; range:40-73) with a clinical ...
AS Hilibrand +34 more
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Viruses, 2022 Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes varicella as a primary infection and remains latent in the ganglia until it becomes reactivated to cause herpes zoster. Individuals with varicella develop adaptive humoral and cell-mediated immunity.
Naruhito Otani +3 more
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Herpes zoster during the COVID-19 pandemic
Przegląd Dermatologiczny, 2022 Varicella-zoster virus leads to primary infection, i.e. varicella, and remains in latent form in sensory dorsal root ganglion cells. Further replication and manifestation of skin lesions characteristic for herpes zoster may occur many years later ...
Olga Krupa +2 more
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SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2022 Herpes zoster which is the reactivation of varicella-zoster virus, a pathogenic human alpha-herpes virus, following primary infection or chicken pox, is known to occur especially in advanced age and in the immunocompromised among other predisposing ...
BM Munasinghe +3 more
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Einstein (São Paulo), 2022 Objective To analyze data from children who were previously healthy and presented with post-varicella arterial ischemic stroke upon arrival when admitted to the emergency room, with focus on the clinical/laboratory aspects, and neurocognitive ...
Regina Maria Rodrigues +7 more
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Varicella Zoster Virus Latency [PDF]
Future Virology, 2011 Primary infection by varicella zoster virus (VZV) typically results in childhood chickenpox, at which time latency is established in the neurons of the cranial nerve, dorsal root and autonomic ganglia along the entire neuraxis. During latency, the histone-associated virus genome assumes a circular episomal configuration from which transcription is ...
Emily M. Eshleman +2 more
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Vaccines, 2021 Corticosteroids, when given in high dosages, have long been recognized as a risk factor for severe infection with wild-type varicella-zoster virus in both children and adults.
Nathan B. Price, Charles Grose
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