Clinical update on varicela zoster infection
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Objective: To carry out a clinical update of the main clinical features of varicella zoster virus infection and its implications for infected patients. Methods: An integrative literature review was adopted as a method, performing the screening in the PubMed database and in the Google Scholar search engine, using descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS), combined with the Boolean operator AND, “Varicela zoster” AND “Virulence” AND “Treatment”. From this, 11 articles constituted a textual corpus for analysis and research. Results: The main clinical characteristics of varicella zoster infection are the polymorphism of the skin lesions (on the skin) that appear in different evolutionary forms (macules, papules, vesicles, pustules and crusts), accompanied by pruritus, the manifestation of post-traumatic neuralgia. herpetica, secondary bacterial skin infections, immunosuppression favors more severe forms of the disease and co-infection with COVID-19 can reactivate the latent virus in the body. Final considerations: It is said that the most likely to develop herpes zoster are children and the elderly. Already in adults, herpes zoster manifests itself mainly in people with a shaken immune system, HIV positive, Diabetes Mellitus type 2 (DM2), excessive stress, cancer and among other pathologies.
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