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- Title
[Herpes zoster after varicella-zoster vaccination].
- Authors
Fahlbusch, M; Wesselmann, U; Lehmann, P
- Abstract
A five-year-old girl, vaccinated against varicella-zoster virus (VZV) presented with clinical symptoms of herpes zoster in the 6th cervical dermatome. A VZV direct immune-fluorescence assay was negative three times but additional genotypical analysis showed a VZV strain genotype 2 (Oka vaccine strain). Therefore the diagnosis of a breakthrough varicella disease with the vaccine strain was established. An immunodeficiency was ruled out and the patient responded well to the initiated therapy. This case demonstrates that a negative VZV direct immunofluorescence assay does not exclude an infection with the vaccine strain.
- Publication
Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete, 2013, Vol 64, Issue 2, p107
- ISSN
1432-1173
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00105-012-2477-x