High prevalence of varicella-zoster virus reactivation in herpes simplex virus-seronegative patients with acute peripheral facial palsy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 529-533

  Furuta, Yasushi ^a   Ohtani, Fumio ^a   Kawabata, Hiroki ^b   Fukuda, Satoshi ^a   Bergström, Tomas ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CHILD; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BELL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACIAL PARALYSIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 0034035006     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313721     Document Type: Article

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