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Asymptomatic reactivation and shed of infectious varicella zoster virus in astronauts.

Journal of medical virology - 1 Jun 2008

Cohrs Randall J, Mehta Satish K, Schmid D Scott, Gilden Donald H, Pierson Duane L

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Varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes varicella (chickenpox), after which virus becomes latent in ganglia along the entire neuraxis. Virus reactivation produces zoster (shingles). Infectious VZV is found in vesicles of patients with zoster and varicella, but virus shed in the absence of disease has not been documented. VZV DNA was previously detected in saliva of astronauts during and after spaceflight, a uniquely...

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PMID: 18428120
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21173
PMCID: PMC2938738

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