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SUBMITTER: Sahoo F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5373666 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sahoo Farah F Hill Joshua A JA Xie Hu H Leisenring Wendy W Yi Jessica J Goyal Sonia S Kimball Louise E LE Lee Ingi I Seo Sachiko S Davis Chris C Pergam Stephen A SA Flowers Mary E ME Liaw Kai-Li KL Holmberg Leona L Boeckh Michael M
Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 20161228 3
The epidemiology of herpes zoster (HZ) in contemporary autologous hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients, and the impact of acyclovir (ACV)/valacyclovir (VACV) prophylaxis, is not well described. In this observational study from 2002 to 2010, we retrospectively identified 1000 varicella zoster virus (VZV)-seropositive autologous HCT recipients with up to 5 years of follow-up. The incidence of HZ and use of ACV/VACV prophylaxis were determined through review of medical records and mailed ...[more]