DEFINISI
HERPES ZOSTER -
SHINGLES
•Infeksi kulit melibatkan & saraf dengan ledakan
inflamatori di dalam kulit bermula dari T3 – L3
Agen Penyebab
•Human (alpha) herpesvirus 3 (Virus Varicella Zoster –
V-Z Virus), a member of the Herpesvirus group
•Reactivation infection with the virus that causes
CHICKENPOX
•Attack to skin area supplied by sensory nerves
Insiden
•Semua golongan seluruh dunia
•Pesakit leukaemia, Hodgkin & limpoma
•Pesakit menerima rawatan kanser, kosteroid
•Belaku banyak pada orang dewasa - tua
•10% pada kanak-kanak
•Pesakit HIV berisiko tinggi mendapat zoster
Incubation period
•2-3 weeks
•Commonly 13- 17 days.
Period of
communicability
•1 week
•10-21 days – susceptible persons
Susceptibility and
resistance
•Universal among those not previously infected
•More severe in adults than of children
•Second attacks are rare
•Leukemia patient – suffer more severe, prolong or
fatal chickenpox.
Preventive measures
•Protect high risk individu
•Neonates
•Immuno-deficient patients
Control of patients,
contact and the
immediate environment
•Report - notification
•Isolation from;
•neonatal
•severe primary lesion
•drainage/ secretion
•newborn baby
•School children at least 5 days
•immunosuppressed patients
Control of patients,
contact and the
immediate environment
•Concurrent disinfection;
•Discharges from nose, throat, lesions
•Quarantine ; none
•Immunization of contacts:
•VZIG given within 96 hours
•Investigation of contacts and source of infection; of no
practical importance
Control of patients,
contact and the
immediate environment
•Specific treatment:
•zovirax
•Epidemic measures: none
•Disaster implications: outbreaks
•International measure: none