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Review
. 2007 Jun 9;334(7605):1211-5.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39206.571042.AE.

Herpes zoster

David W Wareham  1 , Judith Breuer
Affiliations
Review

Herpes zoster

David W Wareham et al. BMJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: JB has received funding for work on the oka vaccine and varicella zoster virus from Merck, Sanofi Pasteur-MSD, GlaxoSmithKline, the Medical Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust. DWW: none declared.

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Rash of herpes zoster
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