The varicella zoster virus (VZV), an infectious virus from the ... of 615 adult patients with suspected CNS infections. VZV DNA was most frequently detected in these patients, with its presence ...

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.

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 ...

‘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 ...

One reason why chickenpox is so ubiquitous, particularly among young children whose immune systems are still developing, is the sheer contagiousness of the varicella-zoster virus, which can be ...

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

Potential Involvement of Varicella Zoster Virus in Alzheimer’s Disease via Reactivation of Quiescent Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease , 2022; 1 DOI: 10.3233/JAD-220287 ...