Neurological disease produced by varicella zoster virus reactivation without rash.

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Published in Curr Top Microbiol Immunol on January 01, 2010

Authors

Don Gilden1, Randall J Cohrs, Ravi Mahalingam, Maria A Nagel

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Neurology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. don.gilden@ucdenver.edu

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