Varicella-zoster Virus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Abendroth, Allison (Editor), Arvin, Ann M. (Editor), Moffat, Jennifer F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 342
• Subjects: Medicine.; Virology.; Biomedicine.

Varicella-zoster virus is a common human pathogen that causes varicella (chickenpox), establishes latency in sensory nerve ganglia and can reactivate many years later as herpes zoster. Although the VZV genome is the smallest of the human herpesviruses, VZV genes encode at least 70 proteins. Molecula...