Twelve Children with Varicella Vaccine Meningitis: Neuropathogenesis of Reactivated Live Attenuated Varicella Vaccine Virus

Varicella vaccine is a live attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV). Like its parental strain called VZV pOka, the vaccine virus vOka retains some neurotropic properties. To better understand vOka neuropathogenesis, we reassessed 12 published cases of vOka meningitis that occurred in once-immunized...

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Main Authors: Ethan H. Heusel, Charles Grose
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Viruses
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/10/1078