Varizella Zoster Virus Infektion

The patient described a burning and tingling sensation along his left inner thigh and across his left lower back that had begun 7 days prior to presentation.

Varizella zoster virus infektion. Vzv reactivates to produce zoster as well as vzv vasculopathy. The development of vaccines to reduce the disease burden particularly in at. Nagel in primer on cerebrovascular diseases second edition 2017. Varicella zoster virus vzv is an exclusively human alphaherpesvirus that causes varicella on primary infection after which virus establishes latency in ganglionic neurons along the entire neuraxis.

Varicella zoster virus vzv causes varicella chickenpox and upon reactivation following latency zoster shingles. Even when clinical symptoms of chickenpox have resolved vzv remains dormant in the nervous system of the. Varicella zoster virus infection published online august 29 2019. Varicella zoster virus infection nat rev dis primers.

Primary varicella zoster virus infection results in chickenpox varicella which may result in complications including encephalitis pneumonia either direct viral pneumonia or secondary bacterial pneumonia or bronchitis either viral bronchitis or secondary bacterial bronchitis. Vzv only naturally infects humans with no animal reservoir. Vzv vasculopathy can present as transient. Authors anne a gershon 1 judith breuer 2 jeffrey i cohen 3 randall j cohrs 4 michael d gershon 5 don gilden 4 charles grose 6.

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