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4 maj 2023 · Chickenpox symptoms in adults typically resemble those in children, but they can become more severe. The disease progresses through symptoms that start one to three weeks after exposure to the...
HSV commonly causes oral and genital mucocutaneous infections whereas VZV is responsible for varicella/chickenpox and herpes zoster/shingles, but cancer patients are at particularly higher risk of complications including disseminated and visceral infections due to impaired cell-mediated immunity.
8 lut 2023 · The virus can also lead to pneumonia in adults with very severe cases of chickenpox. Very rarely the viruses may attack the central nervous system, resulting in meningitis or encephalitis. The risk of this happening is greater in people with a weakened immune system, for instance due to cancer, AIDS or another serious disease.
Twenty-four patients had a chicken pox infection while receiving chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. The median age of the patients was 21 years, and two-thirds of the patients had solid tumor malignancies.
Chickenpox is caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus. In healthy people, it is usually a mild, self-limiting illness, characterised by low-grade fever, malaise, and a generalised, itchy, vesicular rash.
7 lut 2022 · This information describes chickenpox and chickenpox exposure, including how the infection is spread and how it is treated.
15 paź 2022 · Chickenpox or varicella is a contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). The virus is responsible for chickenpox (usually primary infection in non-immune hosts) and herpes zoster or shingles (following reactivation of latent infection).
