Background: Herpes Simplex Virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection can caused genital herpes with a high recurrence rate. Recurrent affects patients' quality of life and needs rapid treatment.
 Case presentation: This study reported 34 years old male recurrent herpes. The patient developed painful vesicles in the area, which turned into an ulcer. History gonorrhoea urethritis were had been treated....

The replication of herpes simplex virus type I and herpes simplex virus type 2 was studied in two isolated hamster cell lines. These lines developed after being treated with herpes simplex virus type 2 inactivated with 7,~2-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene. One cell line that developed, HDC-22, had a hypodiploid chromosome number and was missing a D-group chromosome. Growth studies revealed that this ...

Herpes simplex virus is a common virus that causes a variety of clinical presentations ranging from mild to life-threatening. Orolabial and genital herpes are common disorders that can often be managed in an outpatient setting; however, some patients do present to the emergency department with those conditions, and emergency clinicians should be aware of possible complications in the pediatric ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the paper was to explore the relationship between herpes zoster and pyogenic liver abscesses in Taiwan. METHODS This was a nationwide cohort study. Using the database of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program, there were 33049 subjects aged 20-84 years who were newly diagnosed with herpes zoster from 1998 to 2010 that were selected for our study, and they were o...

PURPOSE This study determined the seroprevalence of herpes virus 2 in gravidas and the differences between herpes virus 2-infected and healthy gravidas. The need to screen gravidas for herpes virus 2 was also evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis involving 500 gravidas who underwent herpes virus 2 serologic testing and delivery in our hospital between January 2009 and Augu...

statement of the problem: alveolar bone necrosis induced by herpes zoster infection is considered as a rare manifestation of osteomyelitis and few case reports are presented in the literature. purpose: the aim of this study was to evaluate mandibular osteomyelitis caused by herpes zoster in the immunocompromised patients with histopathologically documented osteomyelitis in the mandible and herp...

to study changes in concentrations of some biochemical factors of amniotic fluid, 115 normal goat uteri at different stages of pregnancy were collected from slaughterhouse. after expelling of each fetus accompanied by fetal membranes, 10 ml amniotic fluid was taken from amniotic sac for biochemical analysis. then approximate ages of fetuses were calculated by using age estimation formula. at fi...

CONTEXT Approximately 1 million episodes of herpes zoster occur annually in the United States. Although prelicensure data provided evidence that herpes zoster vaccine works in a select study population under idealized circumstances, the vaccine needs to be evaluated in field conditions. OBJECTIVE To evaluate risk of herpes zoster after receipt of herpes zoster vaccine among individuals in gen...