Abstract Title:

Prolonged varicella viraemia and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome following varicella vaccination of a health care worker.

Abstract Source:

Med J Aust. 2009 Apr 20;190(8):451-3. PMID: 19374621

Abstract Author(s):

Claire M Italiano, Cheryl S Toi, Simon P Chan, Dominic E Dwyer

Article Affiliation:

Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW. [email protected]

Abstract:

A 49-year-old health care worker received varicella vaccine in accordance with current Australian guidelines. She developed streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, complicated by acute atraumatic dislocation of the right wrist secondary to poststreptococcal reactive arthritis - to our knowledge, the first report of spontaneous wrist dislocation as a complication in this condition. Vaccination was accompanied by prolonged viraemia with the varicella vaccine strain - also, we believe, the first report of this in an immunocompetent patient.

Study Type : Human Study

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