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/vˌæɹaɪsˈɛlɐ/
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NOUN
- an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body
How To Use varicella In A Sentence
- Shingles is caused by the Varicella zoster virus, or VZV, the same virus that causes chicken pox, and it only strikes people who have had chicken pox in the past. Painful Shingles Can Strike More Than Once
- Polio, MMR, and varicella vaccines have never contained thimerosal.
- Pneumonia is a known complication of rubeola, varicella, and pertussis.
- Patients with lower antibody titers to varicella after vaccination also had an increased rate of breakthrough infection.
- Chickenpox is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the varicella - zoster virus.
- Viral retinitis, a potentially sight threatening disease, is caused by herpes simplex virus, varicella zoster virus and cytomegalovirus 1.
- The medical name for chickenpox is varicella zoster and for shingles it is herpes zoster.
- The first one is for varicella zoster, which is shingles. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2006
- Prenatal screening for immunity to varicella began in this group in 1999.
- Viral meningitis may be caused by viruses such as coxsackie, herpes simplex, mumps, the varicella zoster virus of chickenpox and shingles, poliovirus, echoviruses (including enterovisuses).
