Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Epidemiology and Public Health

• Notes from the Field: Expanded Laboratory Testing for Varicella — Minnesota, 2016–2023 (March 21, 2024)
• Diagnostic and Immunologic Testing for Varicella in the Era of High-Impact Varicella Vaccination: An Evolving Problem (October 21, 2022)
• Burden of varicella in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic literature review (April 14, 2019)
• The changing epidemiology of varicella and herpes zoster in Hong Kong before universal varicella vaccination in 2014 (March 12, 2018)
• A cross-sectional study of the knowledge, attitude, and practice of patients aged 50 years or above towards herpes zoster in an out-patient setting (July 07, 2017)

Clinical Features, Complications, and Management

• Clinical features of varicella-zoster virus infection: Chickenpox (last updated: April 25, 2025)
• Clinical characteristics and treatment of varicella zoster virus central nervous system infection in an Australian tertiary hospital (April 21, 2025)
• Clinical Manifestations of Varicella: Disease Is Largely Forgotten, but It's Not Gone (November 01, 2022)
• Primary and Acquired Immunodeficiencies Associated With Severe Varicella-Zoster Virus Infections (August 28, 2020)
• No. 274-Management of Varicella Infection (Chickenpox) in Pregnancy (August 10, 2018)
• Multidisciplinary study of the secondary immune response in grandparents re-exposed to chickenpox (April 24, 2017)
• The Relationship Between Herpes Zoster, Syphilis and Chickenpox (December 20, 2016)
• Varicella skin complications in childhood: A case series and a systematic review of the literature (May 06, 2016)

Vaccination and Immunology

• Analysis on the Epidemiological Characteristics of Breakthrough Varicella Cases and Incremental Effectiveness of 2-Dose Varicella Vaccine in China (February 06, 2025)
• Pediatric Varicella-related Hospitalization in Turkey Between 2008 and 2018: Impact of Universal Single Dose Varicella Vaccine (VARICOMP Study) (January 01, 2025)
• Effectiveness of the varicella vaccine in the real world, a matched case-control study (May 11, 2024)
• Is there a need for an alternative varicella vaccine (April 10, 2024)
• Chickenpox vaccination recommended in the UK (December 20, 2023)
• National and provincial burden of varicella disease and cost-effectiveness of childhood varicella vaccination in China from 2019 to 2049: a modelling analysis (November 10, 2022)
• Monitoring Varicella Vaccine Impact on Varicella Incidence in the United States: Surveillance Challenges and Changing Epidemiology, 1995–2019 (October 21, 2022)
• Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Varicella During the United States Varicella Vaccination Program Era (October 21, 2022)
• Identifying optimal vaccination scenarios to reduce varicella zoster virus transmission and reactivation (October 08, 2022)
• Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella in children (November 22, 2021)
• Live Attenuated Varicella Vaccine: Prevention of Varicella and of Zoster (September 30, 2021)
• Universal and targeted varicella vaccination (July 23, 2020)
• Epidemiology of varicella and effectiveness of varicella vaccine in Hangzhou, China, 2019 (June 23, 2020)
• Varicella vaccine dose depended effectiveness and waning among preschool children in Hong Kong (October 23, 2019)
• Immunobiology of Varicella-Zoster Virus Infection (September 22, 2018)