Article
Estimated global and regional incidence and prevalence of herpes simplex virus infections and genital ulcer disease in 2020: Mathematical modeling analyses
2024-06-03
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 and 2 infections are lifelong and can cause symptomatic genital ulcer disease (GUD). HSV-2 almost always causes sexually transmitted genital infection, while HSV-1 mainly causes oral infection but can be sexually transmitted to cause genital infection. This study estimated genital infection with both HSV types and associated GUD globally in 2020, break...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 63c8001d-d36d-5d22-9b72-b9cceb175d87
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.06.03.24308350
