Varicella-Zoster Virus Reactivation without Rash

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 166, Issue , 1992, Pages S30-S34

  Gilden, Donald H ^a   Dueland, Aud N ^a   Devlin, Mary E ^a   Mahalingam, Ravi ^a   Cohrs, Randall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHICKENPOX; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SPINAL GANGLION; SYMPTOM; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 0026753608     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/166.Supplement_1.S30     Document Type: Article

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