Patients aged ≥ 18 years with HSV culture-positive persistent (i.e. non-healing) herpetic lesions or who were experiencing culture-positive HSV recurrences (≥ 1 every other month) from seven centres ...

Female genital sores can be caused by a sexually transmitted infection like herpes or HPV. There is no cure for herpes, but antiviral medications like acyclovir and valacyclovir can help manage it.

Genital herpes, caused by the herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) is a very common sexually transmitted infection (STI). It affects 14% of Americans aged 15-49 years. There is no herpes vaccine at present.

Genital ulcers could be one of many sexually transmitted diseases or an infection that is not transmitted by sex. An expert walks you through a case. This is the first of a three-part series on ...

Herpes simplex virus is a common infection that typically appears in and around the mouth (oral herpes) or the genitals (genital herpes). Ulcers may cause pain but usually resolve within a few days or ...

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A total of 18 patients with active herpes lesions were enrolled in the study; 13 patients were immunocompetent and five were immunocompromised (HIV/AIDS; n = 4; cancer leukaemia; n = 1). Overall, five ...