VZV reactivation was confirmed in these 2 patients with serologic assays of paired sera, and a diagnosis of Ramsay Hunt syndrome was made (2 of 30 = 7%; Table 1, cases 1 and 2). None of the ...

This latent virus may later cause shingles (herpes zoster virus) if reactivated. Fortunately, you can prevent the ...

Previous studies have indicated that reactivation of latent varicella zoster virus (VZV) might be associated with relapse in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Sotelo et al. examined patients ...

Internal shingles, or zoster sine herpete (ZSH), is a medical condition that occurs due to the reactivation of the ...

The skin lesions caused by VZV reactivation are painful, and in some cases they last for months. New, more effective, and ideally topical treatments have the potential to transform therapy by ...

Whereas mostly IgM and often also IgA antibodies are detectable during the acute primary infection (chickenpox), the IgM antibody response is lacking in reactivated VZV infection (herpes zoster ...

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2005;24(2):97-101. In conclusion, this study indicates that VZV reactivation is an important cause of acute peripheral facial paralysis in children, especially those 6-15 ...