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Clinical management of herpes simplex virus infections: past, present, and future
2018-10-31
Abstract excerpt
Infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 is ubiquitous in the human population. Most commonly, virus replication is limited to the epithelia and establishes latency in enervating sensory neurons, reactivating periodically to produce localized recurrent lesions. However, these viruses can also cause severe disease such as recurrent keratitis leading potentially to blindness, as well as encephalitis,...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f17ad0f6-c73a-5fbd-9f25-6dfe3552289f
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.16157.1
