… of a booster dose of live attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccine was … zoster (HZ) is
a dermatomal neurocutaneous syndrome caused by reactivation of latent varicella-zoster virus …

… IgM antibodies decline within a few months, but IgG antibodies to many viral proteins
persist for years after primary VZV infection as part of the long-term immune response to VZV. …

… of zoster; he postulated that zoster resulted from waning immunity to VZV in the years …
varicella, permitting the latent virus to emerge (63). More recently the importance of declining …

… in 2007, varicella incidence, hospitalizations and deaths in children have declined by >95%. …
The incidence and severity of zoster increase with age due to declining cell-mediated …

… led to dramatic declines in varicella incidence and varicella-… Survey, single-dose varicella
vaccine coverage for children … deaths due to varicella have concomitantly declined by 80% …

… contact to varicella (and thus increased CMI to VZV) than in psychiatrists or dermatologists.
This decline in CMI is seen among persons with increased incidence of herpes zoster, …

… zoster increases markedly with advancing age, and this appears to be causally related to an
age-dependent decline in varicella-zoster virus (… to the occurrence of herpes zoster, but the …

… for varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and herpes zoster (HZ), which used the Ninth Revision of
the International Classification of Diseases [1]. They report the impact that VZV vaccination of …

… Second, as the risk of infection declines, the average age at which exposure to varicella
occurs increases. (If you buy a lottery ticket every week with a one in ten chance of wining then, …

… allows for a decline in immune competence with increasing age. A simple formulation of
tc(a) is used here: K(U) = C1(e(?4a> —1) allowing for the possibility that the decline is non-linear…