A 7-year-old boy develops vesicular skin lesions on his trunk, which quickly spread to his extremities and appear on the scalp. Scrapings from the vesicles show multinucleated cells and Cowdry type A inclusion bodies. This disease could have been prevented with a vaccine composed of

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The young boy has chickenpox caused by VZV; it can be prevented by immunization with the live attenuated Oka strain of the virus.

A 7-Year-Old Boy Develops Vesicular Skin Lesions on His Trunk