Range of Varicella Zoster Co-Infections with COVID-19, Singapore

There have been recent descriptions of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presenting as ‘varicella-like exanthem’. We report three cases of patients with Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) and COVID-19 co-infections, presenting in three varied ways. These cases highlight the need for heightened...

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Autores principales: Loh, Jerold, Tham, Sai Meng, Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah, Yan, Gabriel, Lee, Chun Kiat, Chai, Louis Yi Ann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases; Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy; The Korean Society for AIDS 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8258286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34216133
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2020.0154
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author Loh, Jerold
Tham, Sai Meng
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Yan, Gabriel
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description There have been recent descriptions of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presenting as ‘varicella-like exanthem’. We report three cases of patients with Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) and COVID-19 co-infections, presenting in three varied ways. These cases highlight the need for heightened alertness to how such co-infections can present, to pick up overlapping ‘dual pathologies’ during this current pandemic given that infection control measures including airborne precautions are crucial for both COVID-19 and VZV.
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spelling pubmed-82582862021-07-19 Range of Varicella Zoster Co-Infections with COVID-19, Singapore Loh, Jerold Tham, Sai Meng Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah Yan, Gabriel Lee, Chun Kiat Chai, Louis Yi Ann Infect Chemother Case Report There have been recent descriptions of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presenting as ‘varicella-like exanthem’. We report three cases of patients with Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) and COVID-19 co-infections, presenting in three varied ways. These cases highlight the need for heightened alertness to how such co-infections can present, to pick up overlapping ‘dual pathologies’ during this current pandemic given that infection control measures including airborne precautions are crucial for both COVID-19 and VZV. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases; Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy; The Korean Society for AIDS 2021-06 2021-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8258286/ /pubmed/34216133 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2020.0154 Text en Copyright © 2021 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases, Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy, and The Korean Society for AIDS https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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