A woman with skin rash and dyspnoea
Hanssen, J.L.J.; Delfos, N.M.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 161: D1908
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 1876-8784 PMID: 29192574 Document Number: 692307
We present a 36-year-old woman who was born and raised in Hongkong but currently lived in the Netherlands. She was admitted with a varicella-zoster virus (VZV) primo-infection complicated by pneumonia and hepatitis. The patient was successfully treated with aciclovir. Adult VZV primo-infections are uncommon in Dutch natives but occur more often in immigrants from countries with a temperate climate where less people are infected during childhood.