Shingles - Altmeyers Encyclopedia - Department Internal medicine

Definition
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Endogenous, usually unilateral, neurotropic recurrent infection with the varicella zoster virus (HHV-3; see below Herpes viruses, human). Zoster (zoser from Greek zostrix = girdle), in contrast to varicella, is a disease of the elderly and is one of the most common acute diseases in dermatology.

For further information see below. Zoster