Varicella Pneumonia: Case Report and Review of a Potentially Lethal Complication of a Common Disease

• Main Authors: John T. Denny MD (Author), Zoe M. Rocke BS (Author), Valerie A. McRae MD (Author), Julia E. Denny MSN, CRNA (Author), Christine Hunter Fratzola MD (Author), Sajjad Ibrar MD (Author), Joyce Bonitz MD (Author), James T. Tse MD, PhD (Author), Shaul Cohen MD (Author), Scott J. Mellender MD (Author), Geza K. Kiss MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Varicella zoster virus causes varicella (chickenpox). It can be reactivated endogenously many years later to cause herpes zoster (shingles). Although varicella is usually a benign disease in healthy children, it resulted in over 11 000 hospitalizations and over 100 deaths every year, in all ages, in...