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Secretion and Dynamics of Herpes Simplex Virus in Tears and Saliva of Patients with Bell's Palsy
1 Sept 2002
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OBJECTIVE: For clarification of the direct relationship between the reactivation of herpes simplex virus and the development of Bell's Palsy, a detection of the virus genome by deoxyribonucleic acid diagnostics and a quantitative analysis of its time-course change are both needed. The authors detected the HSV genome in specimens from patients with Bell's Palsy, quantified its number of copies, and examined...
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