shingles

Examples of shingles in the following topics:

• Shingles

  • Shingles, the common name for herpes zoster, is caused by latent varicella zoster virus, the same virus which causes chickenpox in children.
  • Once an episode of chickenpox has resolved, the virus is not eliminated from the body, but can go on to cause shingles—an illness with very different symptoms—often many years after the initial infection.
  • It has become common practice to vaccinate children against the virus that causes both chickenpox and shingles.
  • Once vaccinated, most children will not become infected with the varicella zoster virus if exposed, and subsequently will not develop shingles later in life.
  • Vaccination after an individual has had chickenpox still reduces the risk of later developing shingles.

• Dermatomes

  • Viruses that remain dormant in nerve ganglia, such as the varicella zoster virus that causes both chickenpox and shingles, often cause either pain, rash, or both in a pattern defined by a dermatome.
  • Shingles is one of the only diseases that causes a rash in a dermatomal pattern, and as such, this is its defining symptom.
  • The rash of shingles is almost always restricted to a specific dermatome, such as on the chest, leg, or arm caused by the residual varicella zoster virus infection of the nerve that supplies that area of skin.
  • Shingles typically appears years or decades after recovery from chickenpox.
  • The shingles rash appears across a dermatome.

• Viral Skin Diseases

  • Three common skin conditions that result from viral infections are cold sores, shingles, and warts.
  • Herpes zoster (or simply zoster), commonly known as shingles, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a stripe.
  • Once an episode of chickenpox has resolved, the virus is not eliminated from the body but remains latent and can go on to cause shingles—an illness with very different symptoms—often many years after the initial infection.
  • The goals of treatment are to limit the severity and duration of pain, shorten the duration of a shingles episode, and reduce complications.
  • Describe what causes cold sores, shingles and warts and the treatment options available

• Recycling and industrial waste

  • Material from construction and demolition sites (including shingles, scrap wood and drywall) can be recycled into asphalt paving, remilled lumber, wallboard and concrete.

• Double-Stranded DNA Viruses: Herpesviruses

  • It commonly causes chicken-pox in children and adults, and herpes zoster (shingles) in adults.
  • Of particular interest include HSV-1 and HSV-2, which cause oral and/or genital herpes, HSV-3 which causes chickenpox and shingles, and HHV-5 which causes mononucleosis-like symptoms, and HHV-8 which causes a Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer of the lymphatic epithelium.
  • Shingles, Pityriasis Rosea).

• Animal Viruses

  • After having a chickenpox infection in childhood, the varicella-zoster virus can remain latent for many years and reactivate in adults to cause the painful condition known as "shingles" .
  • Its double-stranded DNA genome incorporates into the host DNA and reactivates after latency in the form of (b) shingles, often exhibiting a rash.

• The Armory Show

  • Art critic Julian Street wrote that the work resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory" while cartoonists satirized the piece.

• Benin

  • The famed Benin City, formerly of the Kingdom of Benin, was a large complex of homes in coursed mud, with roofs of shingles or palm leaves.

• Antiviral DNA Synthesis Inhibitors

  • It is used to treat herpes simplex virus infections (type 1 and type 2) as well as chicken pox and shingles.

• Hair

  • This layer is composed of scale-like cells that seem to overlap in a shingle-like manner.