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Vaccine Strain and Wild-Type Clades of Varicella-Zoster Virus in Central Nervous System and Non-CNS Disease, New York State, 2004–2019
25 Mar 2022
Abstract excerpt
Since the introduction of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccine in the United States in 1995, there has been a dramatic decrease in both the number and severity of varicella cases. However, VZV surveillance data and information on the VZV clade distribution in central nervous system (CNS) disease and non-CNS disease in New York State is not available. To investigate this, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from...
