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J. B. SHELMIRE, M.D.; BEDFORD SHELMIRE, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1928;17(5):687-700.

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Literature of the past few years dealing with the association of herpes zoster and varicella is so voluminous that a complete review of this subject will not be attempted. In 1915, Le Feuvre¹ placed the number of cases of associated zoster and varicella at forty. According to Low,² a total of fifty such cases had been recorded four years later. In an article published in 1924, Bokay³ of Budapest, who was the first to report the possibility of a relationship between zoster and varicella (1888), found 200 cases recorded in fifty articles. It is estimated that during the past two years fully fifty examples of the association of these two diseases have been added to Bokay's list.

Reviewing the subject, the classification suggested by McEwen⁴ in his excellent article dealing with this condition is repeated here. According to him, cases of zoster-varicella disease fall into four . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DALLAS, TEXAS

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, Baylor University Medical School.

Footnotes
Read at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, May 12-14, 1927.

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