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2001 JAN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although breakthrough varicella can occur at anytime in those who've received the live attenuated vaccine, recent study findings show it is the wild-type virus, not the vaccine virus, that is detected in resultant rashes.
Although people who have contracted chickenpox naturally are more likely to experience recurrence, about 15% of those to whom the live attenuated varicella (chickenpox) vaccine has been administered will experience breakthrough varicella zoster infection.
P. Larussa and colleagues at Columbia University used polymerase chain reaction to determine the strain of varicella-zoster virus that causes breakthrough varicella and zoster in vaccine recipients ("Viral strain identification in varicella vaccinees with ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Vaccine Virus Not Found in Patients with Generalized Rash.(Brief...