Clinico-epidemiological investigation on Varicella Zoster Virus indicates multiple clade circulation in Maharashtra state, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) is consistently in circulation and shows an increase in disease burden during the spring season. Due to a wide range of clinical presentation from a vesicular rash to bleeding or neurological complications, it makes the clinical diagnosis difficult. The present study aims to understand whether the same strain of virus is responsible for the increase in the seasonal outbreaks occurring in different parts of the country with reference to the samples from Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat states of India.

Materials and methods

This study reports the clinico-epidemiological and laboratory findings of suspected Varicella cases. To understand the circulating clade few representative real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) positive were an

SUBMITTER: Sahay RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6118100 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature