Does psychiatric illness affect the recurrence rate of genital herpes?
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Does psychiatric illness affect the recurrence rate of genital herpes?
The progress of 58 patients with first attacks of genital herpes was monitored for up to 30 weeks. The effects of sex (gender), age, social class, and non-psychotic psychiatric illness (as measured by the "general health questionnaire," GHQ) on the recurrence rate of herpes was studied. The recurrence rates, measured by the actuarial percentage recurrence-free curves, showed that the 29 patient...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 1982
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.58.1.40