Postexposure prophylaxis against varicella zoster virus infection among hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2006 Oct;12(10):1096-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2006.06.005.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Acyclovir / administration & dosage
  • Acyclovir / analogs & derivatives
  • Acyclovir / therapeutic use
  • Adult
  • Antibodies, Viral / blood
  • Antibodies, Viral / therapeutic use
  • Antiviral Agents / administration & dosage
  • Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Chickenpox Vaccine
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Contraindications
  • Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Herpes Zoster / prevention & control*
  • Herpes Zoster / transmission
  • Herpesvirus 3, Human / immunology
  • Humans
  • Immune Sera / administration & dosage*
  • Immune Sera / economics
  • Immune Sera / immunology
  • Immunization, Passive* / economics
  • Infant
  • National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
  • Postoperative Complications / prevention & control*
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Premedication*
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • United States
  • Valacyclovir
  • Valine / administration & dosage
  • Valine / analogs & derivatives
  • Valine / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Antiviral Agents
  • Chickenpox Vaccine
  • Immune Sera
  • Valine
  • Valacyclovir
  • Acyclovir