Case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) without an exanthem post MMR vaccination

BACKGROUND: Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a known cause of aseptic meningitis, with a predisposition for an immunocompromised population. A dermatomal rash usually accompanies aseptic meningitis secondary to VZV. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 31-year-old male with a history of chicken...

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Autores principales: Sahra, Syeda, Jahangir, Abdullah, Glaser, Allison, Mobarakai, Neville, Jahangir, Ahmad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8330204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34344345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06453-5
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author Sahra, Syeda
Jahangir, Abdullah
Glaser, Allison
Mobarakai, Neville
Jahangir, Ahmad
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Glaser, Allison
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description BACKGROUND: Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a known cause of aseptic meningitis, with a predisposition for an immunocompromised population. A dermatomal rash usually accompanies aseptic meningitis secondary to VZV. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 31-year-old male with a history of chickenpox in childhood and recent shingles who presented with severe frontal headaches secondary to VZV meningitis. The patient had also recently received the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. He recovered without any neurological sequala. CONCLUSION: This case report describes an immunocompetent patient with recent MMR vaccination who developed aseptic meningitis secondary to VZV without any dermatomal involvement (Zoster Sine Herpete).
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spelling pubmed-83302042021-08-04 Case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) without an exanthem post MMR vaccination Sahra, Syeda Jahangir, Abdullah Glaser, Allison Mobarakai, Neville Jahangir, Ahmad BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a known cause of aseptic meningitis, with a predisposition for an immunocompromised population. A dermatomal rash usually accompanies aseptic meningitis secondary to VZV. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 31-year-old male with a history of chickenpox in childhood and recent shingles who presented with severe frontal headaches secondary to VZV meningitis. The patient had also recently received the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. He recovered without any neurological sequala. CONCLUSION: This case report describes an immunocompetent patient with recent MMR vaccination who developed aseptic meningitis secondary to VZV without any dermatomal involvement (Zoster Sine Herpete). BioMed Central 2021-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8330204/ /pubmed/34344345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06453-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Sahra, Syeda
Jahangir, Abdullah
Glaser, Allison
Mobarakai, Neville
Jahangir, Ahmad
Case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) without an exanthem post MMR vaccination
title Case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) without an exanthem post MMR vaccination
title_full Case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) without an exanthem post MMR vaccination
title_fullStr Case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) without an exanthem post MMR vaccination
title_full_unstemmed Case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) without an exanthem post MMR vaccination
title_short Case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) without an exanthem post MMR vaccination
title_sort case report: aseptic meningitis secondary to varicella-zoster virus (vzv) without an exanthem post mmr vaccination
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8330204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34344345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06453-5
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