Document 0520
 DOCN  M9490520
 TI    Atypical varicella zoster infection in persons with HIV infection.
 DT    9411
 AU    Colebunders R; Van Damme L; Van den Abbeele K; Fleerackers Y; Van den
       Enden E; Dockx P; Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerpen,
       Belgie.
 SO    Acta Clin Belg. 1994;49(2):104-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94346186
 AB    Four patients with HIV infection and severe immunodeficiency are
       described who developed atypical varicella zoster lesions. Three of the
       patients presented with chronic varicella zoster lesions. In two of them
       such lesions were hyperkeratotic. All three patients had been treated
       initially with subtherapeutic doses of acyclovir. In one of the patients
       the lesions were clinically resistant to high dose acyclovir treatment
       and disappeared only when renal insufficiency developed during
       foscarnet-famcyclovir treatment. One patient developed a disseminated
       varicella zoster infection.
 DE    Adult  Aged  Antiviral Agents/ADMINISTRATION & DOSAGE  AIDS-Related
       Opportunistic Infections/*COMPLICATIONS  Case Report  Chronic Disease
       Herpes Zoster/*COMPLICATIONS/DRUG THERAPY  Human  HIV
       Infections/*COMPLICATIONS  Male  Middle Age  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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