The varicella vaccine has significantly lowered the rate of varicella disease, but it has had one unfortunate adverse effect, the introduction of herpes zoster from vaccine-type virus. A brief report ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ATLANTA — After an outbreak of varicella disease among adults living in a residential community, investigators ...

Test Scope This assay may be used in conjunction with clinical observations and other diagnostic assays to determine infection with Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) in specimens collected from patients ...

VARICELLA and herpes zoster are diseases with very different clinical manifestations and age distribution. However, the causative agents of the two syndromes have been shown to be indistinguishable ...

Zoster immune globulin (ZIG) was found, in a double-blind study, to prevent varicella if a 2-ml dose was given to susceptible children within 72 hours of household exposure. Chicken pox developed in ...