Varicella complications: Is it time to consider a routine varicella vaccination?

Abstract

There was no difference in the incidence of varicella complication in children and adults, but the type of complication differed. In children the most common complications were skin and neurological infections, while in adults it was varicella pneumonia. These data provide a baseline for estimating the burden of varicella in Belgrade and support the inclusion of varicella vaccine in childhood immunisation program in Serbia.

Characteristics of chickenpox in children and adults at a tertiary health center in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

“…This result is similar to other relevant studies. 17,18 Elevation of CRP usually follow bacterial super infection during chickenpox. 19,20 Complications during varicella can be a primary, secondary or immunological.…”

“…18,22,25 Recent studies show that secondary bacterial skin super infection is present in 14-50% of patients. 18,26,27 We encountered a higher rate. Possible etiological cause were staphylococci and streptococci, who are found positive in a nasal swabs.…”

Impacto da vacinação contra varicela nos índices de morbimortalidade no Brasil

“…Além das lesões cutâneas, febre e mal-estar geral, os doentes podem desenvolver outros agravos associados à infecção por VZV ou por consequência da mesma. Entre as principais complicações associadas à varicela estão infecções bacterianas da pele, pneumonia, sepses (DULOVIĆ et al, 2010;MAIA et al, 2015) Neste contexto, o Ministério da Saúde por meio do Programa Nacional de Imunizações (PNI), introduziu a vacina tetravalente viral (sarampo, caxumba, rubéola e varicela -atenuada), a partir de setembro de 2013, exclusivamente, para as crianças de 15 meses de idade, que tenham recebido a primeira dose da vacina tríplice viral. E a partir de 2018 foi introduzida uma segunda dose da vacina contra varicela para crianças de quatro até seis anos de idade (BRASIL, 2018).…”

Development of standardized clinical training cases for diagnosis of sexual abuse using a secure telehealth application

“…Cases were uploaded to a secure web-based research database. The database for case collection was MySequel (“MySQL database,” 2010) running on standard Apache (Dulovic, et al, 2010) web configuration. The authentication was a role-based access control so that each expert reviewer was authenticated to create, upload and edit the candidate cases.…”