Caso clínico de una meningitis por reactivación del virus varicela zóster en un paciente inmunocompetente

Abstract

This is a case report about a 15-year-old boy with no other previous medical history than chicken pox. His symptoms were headache, fever and a rash with vesicles in the dermatome that corresponds to T8. He was diagnosed with meningitis by the varicella-zoster virus. The information in the literature is scarce and shows that reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus as meningitis is rare and generally affects immunodeficient patients; however, there are some case reports similar to this case in which the varicella-zoster virus is the agent involved, so it should also be considered in immunocompetent patients diagnosed with meningitis.