Article
Demonstration of either endogenous recurrence or exogenous reinfection by restriction endonuclease cleavage analysis of herpes simplex virus from patients with recrudescent genital herpes.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 1995
Sakaoka H, Aomori T, Gouro T, Kumamoto Y
Abstract excerpt
By using restriction endonuclease (RE) cleavage analysis, either endogenous recurrence or exogenous reinfection of herpes simplex virus (HSV) was clarified in 45 male and 20 female subjects with recrudescent genital herpes. All of the plural (two to ten) isolates from 63 (205 isolates) out of 65 subjects (97%) were HSV-2. Two isolates from only one of 65 subjects (1.5%) were HSV-1, and they showed the same RE...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Animals
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Female
- Genotype
- Herpes Genitalis
- Herpes Simplex
- Herpesvirus 1, Human
- Herpesvirus 2, Human
- Humans
