An acute infectious, usually self-limited, disease believed to represent activation of latent varicella-zoster virus (HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN) in those who have been rendered partially immune after a previous attack of CHICKENPOX. It involves the SENSORY GANGLIA and their areas of innervation and is characterized by severe neuralgic pain along the distribution of the affected nerve and crops of clustered vesicles over the area. (From Dorland, 27th ed)
    

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Did you know...? : that Symmetrel can be of great value in the management of herpes zoster in the elderly or delibitated ...

John Nevins, suffering from "herpes", skin disease on the back, possibly shingles. Watercolour, 1834.

Zoster / von Josef Tappeiner und Klaus Wolff.

Chickenpox and shingles / Alvin and Virginia Silverstein and Laura Silverstein Nunn.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 96.

Infectious diseases ephemera. Box 2.

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Zoster / von Josef Tappeiner und Klaus Wolff.

Did you know...? : that Symmetrel can be of great value in the management of herpes zoster in the elderly or delibitated ...

Chickenpox and shingles / Alvin and Virginia Silverstein and Laura Silverstein Nunn.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 96.

Infectious diseases ephemera. Box 2.