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SUBMITTER: Depledge DP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5079377 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Depledge Daniel P DP Brown Julianne J Macanovic Jasna J Underhill Gill G Breuer Judith J
The Journal of infectious diseases 20160828 9
We report the first use of whole viral genome sequencing to identify nosocomial transmission of varicella-zoster virus with fatal outcome. The index case patient, nursed in source isolation, developed disseminated zoster with rash present for 1 day before being transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU). Two patients who had received renal transplants while inpatients in an adjacent ward developed chickenpox and 1 died; neither patient had direct contact with the index patient. ...[more]