VZV meningitis following varicella vaccine. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Live attenuated varicella zoster virus is administered to prevent varicella in children and herpes zoster in the elderly. We report a case of disseminated herpes zoster in a previously healthy elderly woman hours after Oka strain vaccination. PCR and restriction enzyme analysis revealed that symptoms were caused by wild type virus.

publication date

  • June 12, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Chickenpox Vaccine
  • Encephalitis, Varicella Zoster
  • Herpesvirus 3, Human

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC5391039

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77954657058

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.jcv.2010.04.014

PubMed ID

  • 20542464

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 48

issue

  • 4