Mult Scler Relat Disord
Is antibody titer useful to verify the immunization after VZV Vaccine in MS patients treated with Fingolimod? A case series.
Signoriello E, Bonavita S, Sinisi L, Russo CV, Maniscalco GT, Casertano S, Saccà F, Lanzillo R, Morra VB, Lus G
Fingolimod (FTY720, Gilenya) is a second line therapy to treat relapsing MS not responding to first-line treatments and/or with a high disease activit ...
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BMJ
Risk of herpes zoster after exposure to varicella to explore the exogenous boosting hypothesis: self controlled case series study using UK electronic healthcare data.
Forbes H, Douglas I, Finn A, Breuer J, Bhaskaran K, Smeeth L, Packer S, Langan SM, Mansfield KE, Marlow R, Whitaker H, Warren-Gash C
To assess the magnitude and duration of any hypothesised protective effect of household exposure to a child with varicella on the relative incidence o ...
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Avian Dis.
Outbreak of Systemic Avian Pox in Canaries (Serinus canaria domestica) Associated with the B1 Subgroup of Avian Pox Viruses.
Ávila-Reyes VA, Díaz-Morales V, Chávez-Maya F, García-Espinosa G, Sánchez-Godoy FD
This study reports an outbreak of avian pox in a quarantine of canaries imported from Europe, with a mortality of 30% and clinical signs of dyspnea an ...
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Biol. Blood Marrow Transplant. 2020 Jan 18
Varicella-zoster virus infection in children with autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation: A retrospective, single-center study in Korea.
Kang JM, Kim JM, Lee JW, Yoo KH, Sung KW, Koo HH, Kim YJ
Although long-term antiviral prophylaxis is recommended to prevent varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection in seropositive allogeneic and autologous he ...
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Vaccine 2020 Jan 17
Women who received varicella vaccine versus natural infection have different long-term T cell immunity but similar antibody levels.
Tourtelot E, Quataert S, Glantz JC, Perlis L, Muthukrishnan G, Mosmann T
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection during pregnancy is associated with serious fetal anomalies. The live-attenuated VZV vaccine was approved in 19 ...
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