I am researching epidemiology of herpes zoster in Asia-Pacific, and so far have incidence data from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and Korea. The only data for Thailand is a rate of 0.26/1000 from Aunhachoke K, et al. Int J Dermatol 2011;50:428-35, which is much lower than other countries. I would greatly appreciate pointers to sources of any more data from Thailand, and also from Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and India, if such exist.
Herpes zoster is due to a reactivation of varicella zoster virus (VZV) within a person's body.
You can get some valuable informations by following the links below:-
1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00316.x/pdf
2. http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/6/e004833.full
You'll find something here:
1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00316.x/full
Here is one link : Donahue JG, Choo PW, Manson JE, Platt R. The incidence of herpes zoster. Arch Intern Med 1995;155:1605-9.
It is sited in this article :Bansal M, Singh S, Arora S, Laller S, Walia M. Herpes zoster infection. Ann Trop Med Public Health [serial online] 2012 [cited 2015 Jun 23];5:620-2. Available from: http://www.atmph.org/text.asp?2012/5/6/620/109337
Here is a follow up study from shri lanka : http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/10/117
And here is a review article in which many cross references are available. : http://www.ijpcbs.com/files/v2i2(2).pdf
Hope these prove to be useful.
Thank you all for your helpful replies and references. I have seen these papers, but none have specific incidence data, ie, herpes zoster incidence per 1000 person-years among the general populations of the Asian countries that I wanted.
I found epidemiology data on herpes zoster in Thailand available from the Bureau of Epidemiology, Thailand, website at: www.boe.moph.go.th/boedb/surdata/disease.php?dcontent=old&ds=77
Question followers may be interested to read the completed review of herpes zoster in the Asia-Pacific region, which has now published in BMC Infectious Diseases: (https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-017-2198-y#MOESM1)
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