By Gina Shaw
A retrospective case series study of immunocompromised patients with active herpes zoster infections who presented for care with skin lesions and subtle neurologic manifestations found that 100% had a positive test for the virus in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), reported the study’s authors at IDWeek 2024, in Los Angeles (poster P-910).
“Subtle signs of VZV [varicella-zoster virus] infection of the CNS [central nervous system] can be misleading and easily mistaken for