Oral Herpes Zoster Infection Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Report of Five Cases

Recently, two cases of oral herpes zoster (HZ) following COVID-19 vaccines were reported. It was suggested that COVID-19 vaccine-related oral HZ cases might be missed or misdiagnosed as stomatitis or isolated oral herpes. In this report, five cases of oral HZ following COVID-19 vaccinations are pres...

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Autores principales: Fukuoka, Hiroshi, Fukuoka, Nobuko, Kibe, Toshiro, Tubbs, R. Shane, Iwanaga, Joe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8663753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909338
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19433
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author Fukuoka, Hiroshi
Fukuoka, Nobuko
Kibe, Toshiro
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Iwanaga, Joe
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description Recently, two cases of oral herpes zoster (HZ) following COVID-19 vaccines were reported. It was suggested that COVID-19 vaccine-related oral HZ cases might be missed or misdiagnosed as stomatitis or isolated oral herpes. In this report, five cases of oral HZ following COVID-19 vaccinations are presented. Four cases were observed on the hard palate (V2), and one case was found on the mandible (V3). Four patients did not receive any treatment for their oral HZ, but one patient also had skin reactions on her right orbit and ear and was thus treated with an antiviral drug. As these cases were seen during such a short period of time and in one practice, the relationship with the COVID-19 vaccination appears to be related.
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spelling pubmed-86637532021-12-13 Oral Herpes Zoster Infection Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Report of Five Cases Fukuoka, Hiroshi Fukuoka, Nobuko Kibe, Toshiro Tubbs, R. Shane Iwanaga, Joe Cureus Dermatology Recently, two cases of oral herpes zoster (HZ) following COVID-19 vaccines were reported. It was suggested that COVID-19 vaccine-related oral HZ cases might be missed or misdiagnosed as stomatitis or isolated oral herpes. In this report, five cases of oral HZ following COVID-19 vaccinations are presented. Four cases were observed on the hard palate (V2), and one case was found on the mandible (V3). Four patients did not receive any treatment for their oral HZ, but one patient also had skin reactions on her right orbit and ear and was thus treated with an antiviral drug. As these cases were seen during such a short period of time and in one practice, the relationship with the COVID-19 vaccination appears to be related. Cureus 2021-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8663753/ /pubmed/34909338 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19433 Text en Copyright © 2021, Fukuoka et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Fukuoka, Hiroshi
Fukuoka, Nobuko
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Iwanaga, Joe
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title Oral Herpes Zoster Infection Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Report of Five Cases
title_full Oral Herpes Zoster Infection Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Report of Five Cases
title_fullStr Oral Herpes Zoster Infection Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Report of Five Cases
title_full_unstemmed Oral Herpes Zoster Infection Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Report of Five Cases
title_short Oral Herpes Zoster Infection Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Report of Five Cases
title_sort oral herpes zoster infection following covid-19 vaccination: a report of five cases
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8663753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909338
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19433
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