METHOD FOR PREDICTING ONSET RISK OF HERPES ZOSTER

摘要

The present invention addresses the problem of establishing a method for predicting onset risk of herpes zoster against which the acquisition or lack of immunity can be exclusively examined so far.A method for predicting the onset risk of herpes zoster in future which comprises employing, as a standard, at least one factor selected from among the major diameter of an edema, the outer circumferential length of an erythema and the average erythema diameter.