Immunisation for herpes zoster: current status

Cunningham, Anthony L; Litt, John C B; MacIntyre, C Raina

doi:10.5694/mja14.00070

Topics

Sexual health

Herpes zoster is a painful, disabling condition so the recent development of preventive vaccines is welcome

1 Centre for Virus Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney, NSW.
2 Department of General Practice, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA.
3 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: tony.cunningham@sydney.edu.au

Competing interests:

Anthony Cunningham and John Litt are on the Merck Global Advisory Board for Adult Vaccines and consult with bioCSL. Anthony Cunningham also consults with GlaxoSmithKline.

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