The immunoperoxidase technique was used in an electron microscopy study to localize the virions of herpes zoster virus and simian virus 40 in cell cultures. Intranuclear and intracytoplasmic virions of herpes zoster virus were easily and specifically identified due to intense staining by the finely granular, black reaction product. With simian virus 40, intranuclear virions were not stained, wh...

Little is known on the relationship between herpes zoster and Parkinson's disease in older people. This study aimed to explore whether herpes zoster could be associated with Parkinson's disease in older people in Taiwan.We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the claim data of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program. There were 10,296 subjects aged 65 years and older with newly dia...

Herpes zoster or shingles is reactivation of the varicella zoster virus that had entered the cutaneous nerve endings during an earlier episode of chicken pox traveled to the dorsal root ganglia and remained in a latent form. This condition is characterized by occurrence of multiple, painful, unilateral vesicles and ulceration which shows a typical single dermatome involvement. In this case repo...

OBJECTIVE The aetiology of sudden deafness remains unknown even though some evidences suggest that it could be viral in origin. This study aimed to find out the relationship between viral infections and sudden sensorineural hearing loss. METHODS 32 patients presenting with sudden deafness and 10 healthy controls were included in the study. IgM antibodies to varicella zoster virus, measles, cy...

background: varicella–zoster virus (vzv) causes herpes zoster and varicella (chicken-pox), usually a mild disease which is diagnosed clinically with few complications. however, in neonates and healthy adults it can have a severe presentation. herpes zoster results from vzv reactivation later in life. objective: to determine the seroprevalence of vzv in elementary school children aged 6-10 years...

Immune adherence hemagglutination was compared with the complement fixation test as a means of measuring antibodies to varicella-zoster virus. Analysis of acute- and convalescent-phase sera from patients infected with varicella-zoster or with herpes simplex virus showed the immune adherence hemagglutination test to be more sensitive than the complement fixation test, and greater cross-reactivit...

Varicella zoster virus reactivation often occurs in the setting of impaired immunity, which is generally present in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Therapy for variceIla zoster virus infection is well established. However, it is often been forgotten that acyclovir dosage should be adjusted to renal function. We point to the problem encountered in clinical practice when ESRD patien...

A 70-year-old man, with regional herpes zoster (C2) of 10 weeks duration, died following subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by the rupture of an aneurysm in the basilar artery. Granulomatous angiitis, with multinucleated giant cells, was found at autopsy in the wall of the aneurysm. Electron microscopy of the basilar artery disclosed intracytoplasmic viral particles with an envelope which measured ...

rare. It usually occurs in the setting of im− munodeficiency, for example in patients with malignancy [1], patients on immu− nosuppressive therapy [2], or patients with AIDS [3]. A 62−year−old patient with non−small−cell lung cancer (T3N2M1) presented with a 1−month history of persistent dysphagia and odynophagia. Eight weeks before, he had undergone whole−brain radiation therapy for multiple c...

Investigations of serum antibody status to the five human herpesviruses--herpes simplex virus type 1, herpes simplex virus type 2, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and varicella-zoster virus--were conducted on 197 Navajo children, aged 1-15 years, at a reservation pediatric outpatient clinic in Crownpoint, New Mexico, from 1981-1984. To determine the severity of infection with the human her...