Introduction Herpes zoster (shingles) is a common and painful disease caused by reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV), with debilitating complications including post-herpetic neuralgia.

In March 2025, the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) advised that clade I mpox no longer meets the criteria for a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) and recommended derogation.

The blood routine derived inflammation indexes have been studied in many diseases.However, their roles in varicella-zoster virus (VZV) related central nervous system (CNS) infection diseases are ...

Laboratory Diagnosis of HSV and Varicella Zoster Virus Infections Feinan Fan; Stephen Day; Xuedong Lu; Yi-Wei Tang Disclosures Future Virology. 2014;9 (8):721-731. Future Perspective ...

If the clinical sample contains viable virus, cytopathic effects due to the herpes virus replication occur after several days, signaling the recovery of HSV-1/2 and VZV from the sample.