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Herpes Simplex Virus Mistyping due to HSV-1 × HSV-2 Interspecies Recombination in Viral Gene Encoding Glycoprotein B.
Viruses - 6 Aug 2020
Casto Amanda M, Huang Meei-Li W, Xie Hong, Jerome Keith R, Wald Anna, Johnston Christine M, Greninger Alexander L
Abstract excerpt
Human herpes simplex viruses (HSV) 1 and 2 are extremely common human pathogens with overlapping disease spectra. Infections due to HSV-1 and HSV-2 are distinguished in clinical settings using sequence-based "typing" assays. Here we describe a case of HSV mistyping caused by a previously undescribed HSV-1 × HSV-2 recombination event in UL27, the HSV gene that encodes glycoprotein B. This is the first documented...
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