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Zoster
Zoster meaning
An ancient Greek waist-belt for men. | The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.
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For example, varicella zoster virus causes chickenpox in the acute phase ; after recovery from chickenpox, the virus may remain dormant in nerve cells for many years, and later cause herpes zoster (shingles).
The strain - called herpes zoster ophthalmicus - affects the eyes.
Vicky Chadwick, from Burgess Hill, is recovering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a rare condition caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
Among opportunistic infections, tuberculosis, multidermatomal herpes zoster, esophageal candidiasis, pneumocystosis, acute histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, cytomegalovirus and BK virus were reported with Olumiant.
The evidence points most clearly to benefits around scar healing, as well as acne vulgaris, rosacea, and herpes simplex and zoster.
It found a slight increase in the number of cases of dementia in those with herpes zoster.