A CASE OF CHICKENPOX INFECTION FOLLOWING COVID-19 VACCINATION

Year 2025, Volume: 26 Issue: 1, 76 - 79, 27.01.2025

İrem Nur Durusu , Gulhan Gurel

https://doi.org/10.18229/kocatepetip.1132844

Abstract

Coronavirus hastalığı 2019 (COVID-19) pandemisinin ortasındayız ve hastalık yükünü kontrol altına almak için birçok COVID-19 aşısı dünya çapında dağıtım için yetkilendirildi ve onaylandı. Nükleozid modifiyeli bir RNA aşısı (BNT162b2 Comirnatry) olan Pfizer-BioNTech aşısı, en önemli ve etkili COVID-19 aşılarından biridir. Aşılanan kişi sayısı arttıkça aşıya bağlı çeşitli deri yan etkileri görülmektedir. Gecikmiş lokal reaksiyonlar, morbiliform döküntüler, ürtiker en sık görülen yan etkilerdir. Bu olguda, ikinci doz Pfizer-BioNTech aşısının hemen ardından gelişen, ikinci kez suçiçeği enfeksiyonu geçiren, immünitesi sağlam 38 yaşında bir hasta sunulmaktadır. Bu olgu ile suçiçeği hastalığının tüm insanlarda yaşam boyu bağışıklık sağlamadığını, aşıya bağlı bazı bağışıklık mekanizmaları tarafından yeniden tetiklenebileceğini gözden geçirdik.

Keywords

Suçiçeği, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Aşıları

A CASE OF CHICKENPOX INFECTION FOLLOWING COVID-19 VACCINATION

Abstract

We are in the middle of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and to take control the disease burden several COVID-19 vaccines have been authorized and approved for distribution worldwide. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which is a nucleoside-modified RNA vaccine (BNT162b2 Comirnatry) is one of the most important and effective COVID-19 vaccines. As the number of vaccinated people increases, we see various cutaneous side effects related to vaccination. Delayed local reactions, morbilliform rashes, urticaria are among the most common side effects. Herein, a 38-year-old immunocompetent patient with second time experienced chickenpox infection developed immediately after the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is presented. With this case, we reviewed the fact that chickenpox disease is not supply a life-long immunity in all people, it can be re-triggered by some immune mechanisms related with vaccination.

Keywords

Chickenpox, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Vaccines

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