Did you know about Herpes Zoster
Herpes Zoster or (Zone) is an infectious disease caused by a virus that is found in the posterior root ganglia. It has long been established that the infectious factor responsible is the chickenpox virus (Goulon, 1966; Marey, 1977).
The primary invasion by the virus manifests itself in childhood and enters the nerves during the initial phase of chickenpox through sensory endings spreading along nerve trunks to the dorsal root ganglia. In the past the virus remains dormant being able to express distance of time, usually in terms of temporal decay of the state of the organism. The disease assumes a type poliradiculoneurótico with immunoallergic mechanism. There are several theories about the mechanism triggering immune (virus release by the immunogenic material, insertion of viral antigens in cell membranes, immune complex formation, direct action of the virus on the cell membrane) but currently it is still unclear what the immunoallergic actual mechanism. (more…)
