Article in Japanese

Kawasaki disease developing during the course of herpes zoster by varicella vaccine strain

Keisuke OYATANI¹⁾, Hiroyuki TSUTSUMI²⁾

This paper describes a 1-year-6-month old boy who suffered from herpes zoster. He also developed Kawasaki disease (KD) during its course. The patient had no history of varicella, but had had a varicella vaccination six months previously. A varicella zoster virus (VZV) gene could be detected in his blisters, and sequence analysis revealed that it was a varicella vaccine strain. Therefore, revitalization of varicella vaccine virus could be associated with the onset of KD.

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1) Department of Pediatrics, Tomakomai City Hospital
2) Hokkaido Saiseikai Nishiotaru Hospital

Key words	Kawasaki disease, varicella vaccination, varicella, herpes zoster
Received	August 13, 2018
Accepted	February 18, 2019

31 (2)：151─156,2019