ABSTRACT
En este reporte presentamos el caso de un niño de 15 años sin antecedentes mórbidos, que consulta por un cuadro de cefalea febril, erupción cutánea de características herpéticas en tórax, en quien finalmente se confirma el diagnóstico de meningitis por varicela zóster. La literatura nos muestra que la reactivación del virus varicela zóster en forma de meningitis es rara y en general afecta a la población inmunocomprometida, sin embargo, existen algunos reportes de casos similares al que se presenta, por lo que se debiese considerar como germen causal de meningitis, en la población inmunocompetente.
This is a case report about a 15-year-old boy with no other previous medical history than chicken pox. His symptoms were headache, fever and a rash with vesicles in the dermatome that corresponds to T8. He was diagnosed with meningitis by the varicella-zoster virus. The information in the literature is scarce and shows that reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus as meningitis is rare and generally affects immunodeficient patients; however, there are some case reports similar to this case in which the varicella-zoster virus is the agent involved, so it should also be considered in immunocompetent patients diagnosed with meningitis.