VZV meningitis following varicella vaccine.
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.
Fusco
Dahlene
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New York Presbyterian Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York, NY, USA.
Krawitz
Peter
P
LaRussa
Philip
P
Steinberg
Sharon
S
Gershon
Anne
A
Jacobs
Jonathan
J
D000368:Aged; D019433:Chickenpox Vaccine / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D020804:Encephalitis, Varicella Zoster / Q000209:etiology / Q000821:virology*; D005260:Female; D014645:Herpesvirus 3, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014613:Vaccines, Attenuated / Q000009:adverse effects
D019433:Chickenpox Vaccine; D004279:DNA, Viral; D014613:Vaccines, Attenuated