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Bilateral herpes zoster in a patient with end-stage kidney disease

Herpes zoster (HZ) is caused by the reactivation of a latent varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection within the cranial or dorsal root ganglia. The cutaneous lesions of HZ are typically limited to a single dermatome, while non-contiguous HZ involving two or more dermatomes is a very rare clinical ent...

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Autores principales: Akimoto, Tetsu, Muto, Shigeaki, Nagata, Daisuke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5484569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28684923
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S138398