ReviewJournal of hospital medicine2025
Clinical progress note: Varicella Zoster.
Review in Journal of hospital medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cutaneous-Tropism Viruses: Unraveling Pathogenetic Mechanisms and Immunoprophylactic Strategies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- A propensity score matching study on clinical characteristics and risk factors of herpes zoster in malignant tumor.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Clinical progress note: Varicella Zoster.Journal of hospital medicine · 2025Review
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Abstract
Varicella Zoster virus (VZV) is the etiologic agent responsible for varicella and herpes zoster (shingles). Nonimmune children and adults acutely infected with VZV typically experience a vesicular and pruritic rash that progresses from the face and trunk and generalizes to the extremities, accompanied by an oral enanthem along with symptoms of fever and malaise. Later, the virus may reactivate from dormancy in the dorsal root ganglia, leading to a stereotypical, unilateral, painful, vesicular rash limited to one or two dermatomes. While either pattern of infection is usually self-limited in healthy children, more severe complications including death may occur among immunocompromised, pregnant, or adult patients. VZV vaccines have greatly reduced morbidity and mortality since their introduction more than 30 years ago. Hospitalists should be prepared to recognize and treat patients with VZV infection, particularly in an era of increasing vaccine hesitancy.
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