Varicella-zoster (VZ) antibody measured by indirect immunofluorescence was used to identify patients with encephalitis due to VZ virus. In 15 of 16 (94%) patients with VZ infection and clinical evidence of central nervous system involvement, VZ antibody was present at a titer of 1:2 or greater in cerebrospinal fluid. In contrast, no VZ antibody was detected in the cerebrospinal fluid of seven p...

Pathogenesis Varicella and zoster are different clinical manifestations caused by the same (VZ) virus. Infection of a previously uninfected person produces varicella or in some cases an inapparent infection. Zoster is believed to result from the activation of VZ virus which has been present, but inactive, in the patient's dorsal root ganglion cells and/or his skin cells. Most are 'immune' to a ...

background and objectives: chicken pox has potential complications during pregnancy for both the mother and her baby. the aim of this study was to determine the varicella-zoster virus (vzv) immune status in pregnant women in babol and its surrounding neighborhoods. materials and methods: this seroepidemiological study was carried out on 427 pregnant women referred to rohani hospital, babol, no...

In studies designed to determine the factors responsible for control of herpesvirus replicaton in an infected cell, we examined the interaction of varicella-zoster (VZ) virus-infected human embryonic lung cells with the pesticide carbaryl. The replication of the cell-associated VZ virus was enhanced 2- to 13-fold as compared to control cultures in Sevin 4 Oil-treated cultures and in cultures tr...

UNLABELLED We demonstrated previously that Pannexin 1 (Panx1), an ion and metabolite channel, promotes the growth and proliferation of ventricular zone (VZ) neural precursor cells (NPCs) in vitro. To investigate its role in vivo, we used floxed Panx1 mice in combination with viruses to delete Panx1 in VZ NPCs and to track numbers of Panx1-null and Panx1-expressing VZ NPCs over time. Two days af...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) presented with pulmonary symptoms and various extra manifestations including dermatological like urticarial, acralvascular lesion erythematous maculopapular rash, vesicular rash. Herpes zoster is a painful rash resulting from reactivation of varicella-zoster (VZ) virus that also causative agent chickenpox. The incidence HZ infection (HZ...

In this work, the concentration gradient (CG) analysis of local-scale exploration for Porphyry-Cu deposits is applied in two zones using the G(Vz) index (CG(Zn*Pb)/CG(Cu*Mo)). The first zone is covered by a 1:2000 map of the Sungun and Astamal areas in NW Iran and the second one in the Inza area in British Columbia, Canada. The rock samples are taken from Sungun and Astamal and the soil samples...