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Chickenpox
New findings from J. Breuer and co-authors describe advances in chickenpox
April 30th, 2008
According to recent research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, "As with most live attenuated viral vaccines, varicella vaccine comprises a mixture of variant strains. Knowledge about the pathogenic potential of individual strains in the varicella vaccine is limited." "Vaccination against chickenpox causes a usually modified varicella-like rash in a small percentage of healthy children, and vaccine virus reactivates on rare occasions to cause herpes zoster (HZ). In several published studies, our respective laboratories have analyzed genomic variation among specimens from cases of postvaccination rash and HZ in vaccine recipients, focusing on...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-04-30)
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