Meet the editor

Ronaldo Luis Thomasini is a Professor of Microbiology, Parasitology, Pathology, and Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine of Diamantina-Federal University of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys - UFVJM, Brazil. He is a Coordinator of The Center for Studies of Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases and a Professor in the Multi-Centric Post-Graduation Program in Physiological Sciences (PMPGCF-UFVJM), and Post-Graduation Program in

Pharmaceutical Sciences (PPGCiFarm-UFVJM). He is a graduate (Licenciate and Bachelor) in Biological Sciences by Herminio Ometto University Center (2002), Master degree in Pharmacology by State University of Campinas - UNICAMP (2007), and PhD in Clinical Medicine by the same university (2011). He has a post-doctoral fellow in Biochemistry and Immunology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais-UFMG and develops studies in clinical pathology, microbiology, virology, immunology and biochemistry, techniques on molecular biology applied to the diagnosis of infectious disease and host-parasite interactions.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*by Ronaldo Luis Thomasini*

Sunlight and Herpes Virus

*and Maria Alessandra Sotgiu*

Extracranial Herpetic Paresis

Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

*by Vesna Martic*

**Section 4**

*by Şule Gökçe*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Human Herpesvirus Simples **9**

**Chapter 2 11**

Varicella-Zoster Virus **31**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 45**

Human Cytomegalovirus **83**

**Chapter 5 85**

Human Cytomegalovirus Infection: Biological Features, Transmission,

Introductory Chapter: Human Herpesvirus - A Short Introduction

*by Vittorio Mazzarello, Marco Ferrari, Stefano Decandia* 

Neurologic Complications of Varicella-Zoster Virus Infection *by Hideto Nakajima, Makoto Hara, Akihiko Morita and Satoshi Kamei*
