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Herpes Zoster Virus
Research by L.A. Jackson and colleagues in herpes zoster virus provides new insights
October 1st, 2008
"The availability of a vaccine for the prevention of herpes zoster has increased interest in methods to measure zoster disease burden. Hospitalizations assigned a zoster diagnosis code have been used as indicators of severe zoster in prior studies," investigators in the United States report. "However, a zoster diagnosis code may not be a specific indicator of severe zoster illness, because the code may be assigned to a hospitalization for another cause in a person with coincident zoster. To assess the validity of a hospital diagnosis code of zoster as an indicator of hospitalizations that are attributable to zoster, we identified all hospitalizations with a zoster...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-10-01)
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