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Detection of differences in genomic profiles between herpes simplex virus type 1 isolates sequentially separated from the saliva of the same individual.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Aug 2007
Umene Kenichi, Yamanaka Fukiko, Oohashi Satoko, Koga Chihiro, Kameyama Tadamitsu
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BACKGROUND: Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is assumed to cause recrudescent lesions, usually through endogenous recurrence and rarely through exogenous re-infection. The occurrence of exogenous re-infection in genital and corneal HSV infections has been previously demonstrated using genomic analysis, while exogenous re-infection in oral-facial HSV infections has not been shown. OBJECTIVES: To confirm the occurrence...
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