Maria A. Nagel, MD, department of neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora. Her expert commentary and the study on shingles and stroke appeared in Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. The study, titled “Risk of Stroke Following Herpes Zoster: A Self-Controlled Case-Series Study,” by researchers on the faculty of epidemiology and population health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK, was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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