Varicella Outbreak in an Indian Couple Living in Germany Caused by VZV Clade VI Acquired during a Trip to The Netherlands | Zendy

Malgorzata Kolesnik | Zendy; Bernd Bonnekoh | Zendy; Ina Tammer | Zendy; Harald Gollnick | Zendy; Andreas Sauerbrei | Zendy

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Varicella Outbreak in an Indian Couple Living in Germany Caused by VZV Clade VI Acquired during a Trip to The Netherlands

Author(s) -

Malgorzata Kolesnik,

Bernd Bonnekoh,

Ina Tammer,

Harald Gollnick,

Andreas Sauerbrei

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

case reports in medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1687-9627

pISSN - 1687-9635

DOI - 10.1155/2012/838241

Subject(s) - clade , outbreak , medicine , virology , virus , varicella zoster virus , biology , genetics , phylogenetics , gene

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV), the cause of varicella and zoster, is divided into five major clades and four provisional clades, the latter of which have been rarely reported worldwide to date. We present a varicella outbreak by the provisional clade VI within an Indian couple in Germany returning from a trip to Amsterdam. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of varicella by the VZV clade VI described in Germany, but the disease was acquired in The Netherlands.

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