Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes chickenpox and shingles, while herpes simplex virus (HSV) is responsible for oral and genital herpes. Although current treatments mainly focus on inhibiting viral ...

We explore the use of currently available LAV, such as live-attenuated influenza, varicella–zoster virus ... of possibly uncontrolled replication of the vaccine virus and an infection that ...

Researchers have developed a new treatment formula - known as GS-1 - that could reduce the symptoms and contagiousness of the viruses behind shingles and cold sores.

Virus isolations were attempted from multiple sources at various times during the illness of patients with herpes zoster and varicella; the isolation of virus was correlated with the development ...

‘The #chickenpox virus, #Varicella-zoster, evades our #immunesystem by hiding in nerve cells, reactivating years later as #shingles when immunity weakens. ’ The findings were published in the ...

The main symptom is a painful rash. The virus that causes shingles is called varicella zoster. It's the same virus that causes chickenpox. You can think of shingles as getting hit twice by the ...

Antibody-mediated responses against varicella-zoster virus (VZV), including avidity and persistence, are higher in individuals who received an adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV ...

Chickenpox is most common amongst children though adults can also contract the varicella-zoster virus which causes the disease. Shingles is a similar illness caused by this virus, and it can only ...

Shingles and ZSH are caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which is the same virus that causes chickenpox. ZSH is rare and likely underrecognized. There isn’t much statistical data on the ...

It is a neurological disorder in which the Varicella zoster virus infects specific nerves in the head. The Varicella zoster virus can also cause chicken pox. People who have had chicken pox carry ...

Unlike a separate virus that causes genital herpes, herpetic eye disease is not sexually transmitted. One of the viruses that causes herpetic eye disease is called the varicella-zoster virus.