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Preventive health: Update on varicella zoster

Varicella zoster virus (VZV) is a pathogenic human herpes virus that is found worldwide. Primary infection causes chickenpox. Following primary infection, VZV establishes latency in sensory neurons of the peripheral dorsal root, cranial nerve, autonomic and enteric ganglia. Thereafter, reactivation, as a result...
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Infectious diseases

Pain medicine: post-herpetic neuralgia

Case study 1

A 78-year-old female patient was referred by her GP to the pain clinic complaining of pain in her chest wall on the right side

The woman reported spontaneous sharp burning pain in the right side of her chest just under the breast for the past four months. The pain is provoked by trivial...
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Shingles jab can lower heart disease risk, research shows
June 2025

FROM THE JOURNALS

Herpes zoster infection
June 2019

CLINICAL ARTICLES

Preventive health: Update on varicella zoster
April 2019

FROM THE JOURNALS

Risk of skin and soft tissue infections (including shingles)...
August 2013

HOSPITAL CEPS
July 2012
Pain medicine: post-herpetic neuralgia

PATIENT Q&A
Shingles - trying to conceive?

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Shingles - affect fertility?

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Shingles - contagious?

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Shingles - still in pain?

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Shingles - can it recur?

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Shingles - recovery time?

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Ramsey Hunt Syndrome - explain?

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Chest pain - stress related?

PATIENT Q&A
Shingles in an elderly man - prognosis?

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