Ann Infect Dis Epidemiol | Volume 1, Issue 1 | Case Report | Open Access

Facial Herpes Zoster Accompanied by Herpes Zoster Conjunctivitis Caused by Dolosigranulum Pigrum

Haijian Zhou^*

Department of Respiratory Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China

^*Correspondance to: Haijian Zhou 

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Abstract

Dolosigranulum pigrum is considered as an emerging opportunistic pathogen. It was isolated from a patient with facial herpes zoster accompanied by herpes zoster conjunctivitis and identified by 16S rRNA DNA sequence analysis. Furthermore, literature data were collected together to describe the characteristics of D. pigrum and the infections.

Keywords:

Dolosigranulum pigrum; conjunctivitis; 16S rRNA DNA sequencing

Citation:

Zhou H. Facial Herpes Zoster Accompanied by Herpes Zoster Conjunctivitis Caused by Dolosigranulum Pigrum. Ann Infect Dis Epidemiol. 2016;1(1):1004.