Why do so many clinicians believe that recurrent zoster is common?

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Chien, Andy J ^a   Olerud, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; VALACICLOVIR; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

ACTINIC RETICULOID; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EPIDEMIC; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RECURRENT DISEASE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VESICULAR RASH; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34248168725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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