Receipt of thyroid hormone deficiency treatment and risk of herpes zoster

Objective: Thyroid hormone (TH) has been suggested to control herpes virus gene expression and replication in neurons via epigenetics through its nuclear receptors. It has previously been shown that patients with hypothyroidism are predisposed to herpes zoster (HZ), suggesting that the TH deficiency...

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Main Authors: Shao-Chung V. Hsia, Lie Hong Chen, Hung-Fu Tseng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-06-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971217301273