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Vaccines for preventing herpes zoster in older adults

BACKGROUND: Herpes zoster or, as it is commonly called, ‘shingles’ is a neurocutaneous disease characterised by the reactivation of varicella zoster virus (VZV), the virus that causes chickenpox, which is latent in the dorsal spinal ganglia when immunity to VZV declines. It is an extremely painful c...

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Autores principales: Gagliardi, Ana M. Z., Silva, Brenda Nazaré Gomes, Torloni, Maria Regina, Soares, Bernardo Garcia de Oliveira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação Paulista de Medicina - APM 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10496737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25055074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-3180.20141324T1

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