A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient

BACKGROUND: Disseminated cutaneous herpes zoster in healthy persons is uncommon, though it has been described in immunocompromised patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of disseminated cutaneous herpes zoster in an elderly man with no apparent immunosuppressive condition. The patient was t...

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Autores principales: Gupta, S, Jain, A, Gardiner, C, Tyring, SK
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1327670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16351732
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-6-50
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author Gupta, S
Jain, A
Gardiner, C
Tyring, SK
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Tyring, SK
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description BACKGROUND: Disseminated cutaneous herpes zoster in healthy persons is uncommon, though it has been described in immunocompromised patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of disseminated cutaneous herpes zoster in an elderly man with no apparent immunosuppressive condition. The patient was treated successfully with intravenous Acyclovir. CONCLUSION: We suggest that disseminated zoster can occur in an immunocompetent host and should be promptly recognized and treated to prevent serious complications.
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spelling pubmed-13276702006-01-14 A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient Gupta, S Jain, A Gardiner, C Tyring, SK BMC Fam Pract Case Report BACKGROUND: Disseminated cutaneous herpes zoster in healthy persons is uncommon, though it has been described in immunocompromised patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of disseminated cutaneous herpes zoster in an elderly man with no apparent immunosuppressive condition. The patient was treated successfully with intravenous Acyclovir. CONCLUSION: We suggest that disseminated zoster can occur in an immunocompetent host and should be promptly recognized and treated to prevent serious complications. BioMed Central 2005-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC1327670/ /pubmed/16351732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-6-50 Text en Copyright © 2005 S et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Gupta, S
Jain, A
Gardiner, C
Tyring, SK
A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient
title A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient
title_full A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient
title_fullStr A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient
title_short A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient
title_sort rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1327670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16351732
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-6-50
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