What's the difference between chickenpox and varicella?
Chickenpox
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Varicella
Definition:
(n.) Chicken pox.
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(1) However, nonimmune adults, including pregnant women, are at greater risk for complications and mortality when they contract varicella.
(2) (S)-1-[3-Hydroxy-2-(phosphonylmethoxy)propyl]cytosine (S-HPMPC) was able to prevent simian varicella infection in African green monkeys inoculated intratracheally with virus.
(3) The immune adherence hemagglutination (IAHA) test was compared with the complement fixation (CF) test and fluorescent antibody (FA) test to measure the antibody titer to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in 70 sera of convalescents 2 to 8 weeks after herpes zoster onset.
(4) Between January 1, 1981, and December 31, 1990, 83 previously well children and 20 with stable underlying conditions were hospitalized because of complications of varicella.
(5) It was found that gp63 has a region of homology with a herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) protein, encoded by US7, and also with varicella-zoster virus (VZV) gpIV.
(6) Our studies of in vitro cellular immune responses to herpesviruses have shown that, before treatment, lymphoma patients have decreased transformation to varicella-zoster virus antigen compared to herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus antigens.
(7) A homolog of UL49.5 is present in the genome of varicella-zoster virus, located between homologs of UL49 and UL50.
(8) Appropriate use of varicella zoster immunoglobulin to prevent or ameliorate maternal or perinatal infection depends on accurate identification of varicella-susceptible women.
(9) In both cases, human fibroblast cultures infected by material obtained from cutaneous lesions (in the second case also from the spleen) revealed the presence of Herpesvirus varicellae.
(10) Patients with negative signals were found to suffer from mycobacterial infection (patient 1) or varicella-zoster virus infection (patient 6).
(11) In varicella, few changes were found by light microscopy but viral antigen was detected in a few neurons and satellite cells by immunofluorescence.
(12) The correlation between the IAHA antibody titer and susceptibility of individuals to clinical varicella was investigated retrospectively using sera obtained during 2 outbreaks of varicella in an institution for children, where all the unvaccinated children had developed varicella symptoms.
(13) Measles, rubella and varicella antibodies were determined by ELISA methods.
(14) Early, aggressive therapy with acyclovir seems to abort the catastrophic consequences of varicella pneumonia, while oral acyclovir chemoprophylaxis is probably beneficial in high-risk populations with chickenpox.
(15) This assumes that vaccine would be administered only once with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, that there would be no increase in the number of varicella cases in older persons who are at increased risk for complications, and that there would be no deleterious effect on the occurrence and severity of herpes zoster.
(16) This outbreak suggests that shingles can be provoked by reexposure to varicella-zoster virus.
(17) In view of the risk of serious malformations following intrauterine varicella infection attempts should be made to prevent varicella zoster virus infection during pregnancy.
(18) Varicella-zoster virus was isolated from mononuclear cells from seven immunocompetent children with varicella during the late incubation period and during the acute phase of the disease.
(19) Replication of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) was studied in a range of human cells (Chang conjunctival, HEp2 and Vero) and compared with that in HEL cells.
(20) Fifty immunocompromised children with varicella who exhibited no signs of dissemination were treated with intravenous acyclovir or placebo in a double-blind, randomized study.