| Literature DB >> 24470276 |
Hung Fu Tseng1, D Scott Schmid, Rafael Harpaz, Philip LaRussa, Nancy J Jensen, Pierre Rivailler, Kay Radford, Jennifer Folster, Steven J Jacobsen.
Abstract
We report the first laboratory-documented case of herpes zoster caused by the attenuated varicella zoster virus (VZV) contained in Zostavax in a 68-year-old immunocompetent adult with strong evidence of prior wild-type VZV infection. The complete genome sequence of the isolate revealed that the strain carried 15 of 42 (36%) recognized varicella vaccine-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms, including all 5 of the fixed vaccine markers present in nearly all of the strains in the vaccine. The case of herpes zoster was relatively mild and resolved without complications.Entities:
Keywords: adult vaccination; herpes zoster; varicella zoster virus
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24470276 PMCID: PMC3967828 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu058
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079