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Le virus de la varicelle et du zona dans le système nerveux : retraite silencieuse ou guérilla permanente ?
Rentier, Bernard; Sadzot-Delvaux, Catherine
2000In Virologie, 4 (3), p. 207-216
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Keywords :
Varicella-zoster virus; Nervous system
Abstract :
[en] Varicella-zoster virus is a Herpesvirus responsible for three distinct clinical features : chicken pox (varicella), shingles (herpes zoster) and post-zosterian pain (post-herpetic neuralgia). Neurological aspects of these diseases such as complications of chicken pox, viral latency in sensory gan-glia and reactivation as shingles with concurrent and at times subsequent prolonged pain, are the sequels of the invasion of the peripheral nervous system during primary infection. Prevention is achieved by vaccination with a live attenuated virus strain and therapy calls for specific antiviral agents. In many respects, VZV behaves differently from close relatives. In particular, viral latency in the nervous system is quite different from that of other Herpesviri-dae. The recent discovery of the expression and accumulation of some viral regulatory proteins during latency, although VZV latency had always been considered silent, as well as the demonstration that these proteins are immu-nogenic are opening new avenues to investigate the mechanisms of VZV latency and the immune control of VZV reactivation.
[fr] Virus de la varicelle et du zona; Système nerveux.
Disciplines :
Immunology & infectious disease
Author, co-author :
Rentier, Bernard  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des Sciences de la Vie > Virologie fondamentale et Immunologie
Sadzot-Delvaux, Catherine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Virologie et immunologie
Language :
French
Title :
Le virus de la varicelle et du zona dans le système nerveux : retraite silencieuse ou guérilla permanente ?
Alternative titles :
[en] Varicella-Zoster virus in the nervous system: silent retreat or permanent guerilla?
Publication date :
2000
Journal title :
Virologie
ISSN :
1267-8694
eISSN :
1950-6961
Publisher :
John Libbey
Volume :
4
Issue :
3
Pages :
207-216
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
The definitive version is available at : http://www.jle.com/fr/revues/bio_rech/vir/sommaire.md?cle_parution=432&&type=text.html
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