Review of Human Herpes Viruses in Burns

This systematic review was created according the PRIMSA (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses) guidelines and checklist.

We performed an review of the medical literature to identify all studies that contain HSV, CMV and VZV infections in burns.Therefore, systematic review of the Medline database by using PubMed and Ovid interface was conducted. Also the Web of Science interface was used for systematic literature search.

On the PubMed interface, we used the following search terms: ("HSV"[All Fields] OR "herpes"[All Fields] OR "CMV"[All Fields] OR "cytomegalovirus"[All Fields] OR "VZV"[All Fields] OR "varicella-zoster"[All Fields]) AND ("burns"[MeSH Terms] OR "burns"[All Fields] OR "burn"[All Fields] OR "thermal trauma"[All Fields]). For Ovid we used: exp Burns/ AND (exp Herpes Zoster/ or exp Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex/ or exp Herpes Simplex/ or exp Herpes Simples Virus Vaccines/), exp Burns/ AND (exp Cytomegalovirus/ or exp Cytomegalovirus Infections/), exp Burns/ AND (exp Chickenpox/ or Herpesvirus 3. Human/ or exp Herpes Zoster/). And for Web of Science we used: (TS=(HSV OR herpes OR CMV OR cytomegalovirus OR VZV OR varicella-zoster) AND TS=(burn OR burns OR thermal trauma)) AND LANGUAGE: (English) AND DOCUMENT TYPES: (Article); Timespan: All years; Indexes: SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S.

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who presented with at least 1% TBSA burned
• Patients who presented with a viral infections during their hospitalization

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who had no burns
• Patients who had no viral infections during their hospitalization