zoster

Converse of object

cause: After the primary infection, it persists dormant in sensory nerve ganglia: it can be reactivated many decades later to cause zoster.

Adjective modifier

• acute: There is no consensus on how acute herpes zoster ( shingles ) should be managed in general practice.
• ophthalmic: Someone with exposed lesions ( e.g. ophthalmic zoster ).

Modifies a noun

• ophthalmicus: A mother infected with herpes zoster ophthalmicus carries a child ( Figure 6 ).
• virus: Click here for answer This is shingles caused by the herpes zoster virus which also causes chicken pox.
• infection: There he again became ill with fever, falling blood counts, skin rash and herpes zoster infection.
• immunoglobulin: Passive immunization should be carried out using Varicella zoster immunoglobulin ( VZIG ) in non-immune patients if exposed to chickenpox or shingles.
• eruption: Incidence The incidence of PHN is between 9 and 14 % one month after the herpes zoster eruption.
• vaccine: Prevention Chickenpox is now a vaccine preventable disease with the advent of a live attenuated varicella zoster virus vaccine.

Noun used with modifier

• varicella: In rare cases, an unborn child exposed to varicella zoster can be damaged or may be miscarried.
• herpes: Patients taking systemic steroids, who have not had chicken pox, should avoid close personal contact with chicken pox or herpes zoster.
• virus: Shingles A painful skin rash due to the virus herpes zoster.