[Clinical picture and pathogenesis of generalized forms of herpes zoster]

Autor: Iu K, Smirnov, A S, Shishov, N N, Mal'tseva, I O, Kharin, B I, Papilova
Rok vydání: 1981
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Zdroj: Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (Moscow, Russia : 1952). 81(2)
ISSN: 0044-4588
Popis: Clinical examination of 83 patients with generalized herpes zoster has given the authors grounds to regard this disease as a result of activation of latent varicella-zoster virus. This assumption was confirmed by the results of indirect hemagglutination inhibition tests with 37 serum specimens taken from 18 patients. Treatment with antibiotics, the drug proper-myl, and by dehydration was the more effective, the earlier the patients were admitted to the clinic. Dehydration, proper-myl and combination of chloramphenicol with dehydration produced a more beneficial effect than the antibiotic alone. Five patients died. Problems of pathogenesis are discussed.
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