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Herpes zoster caused by vaccine-strain varicella zoster virus in an immunocompetent recipient of zoster vaccine.


ABSTRACT: We report the first laboratory-documented case of herpes zoster caused by the attenuated varicella zoster virus (VZV) contained in Zostavax in a 68-year-old immunocompetent adult with strong evidence of prior wild-type VZV infection. The complete genome sequence of the isolate revealed that the strain carried 15 of 42 (36%) recognized varicella vaccine-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms, including all 5 of the fixed vaccine markers present in nearly all of the strains in the vaccine. The case of herpes zoster was relatively mild and resolved without complications.

SUBMITTER: Tseng HF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3967828 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Herpes zoster caused by vaccine-strain varicella zoster virus in an immunocompetent recipient of zoster vaccine.

Tseng Hung Fu HF   Schmid D Scott DS   Harpaz Rafael R   LaRussa Philip P   Jensen Nancy J NJ   Rivailler Pierre P   Radford Kay K   Folster Jennifer J   Jacobsen Steven J SJ  

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20140126 8


We report the first laboratory-documented case of herpes zoster caused by the attenuated varicella zoster virus (VZV) contained in Zostavax in a 68-year-old immunocompetent adult with strong evidence of prior wild-type VZV infection. The complete genome sequence of the isolate revealed that the strain carried 15 of 42 (36%) recognized varicella vaccine-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms, including all 5 of the fixed vaccine markers present in nearly all of the strains in the vaccine. The  ...[more]

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