The association of genital herpetic infections with gonorrhoea and other venereal diseases has been noted since the latter part of the 19th century (Diday and Doyon, 1886). Recently, Beilby, Cameron, Catterall, and Davidson (1968) in England have suggested the possibility that gonorrhoeal infection may trigger recurrences of herpetic cervicitis. To test this hypothesis, the present study was co...

Introduction: There is a strong relationship between infectivity with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV); however the process leading to chronic herpetic lesions in HIV is still under investigation. Case report: There is evidence that patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may be more prone to chronic ulcers than those not receiving therap...

A case is described of herpetic hepatitis in a pregnant woman with primary herpetic stomatitis. Intranuclear inclusion bodies and virus particles were found in hepatocytes, and herpes virus was isolated from a liver biopsy and from oral swabs but not from blood. From rising titres of neutralizing and complement-fixing antibody it is concluded that the oral infection was a primary one. Factors p...

OBJECTIVE To report recurrent herpetic keratouveitis following YAG laser peripheral iridotomy. METHODS Case report. RESULTS A 64-year-old woman with a history of dendritic keratitis underwent Nd:YAG laser peripheral iridotomy and developed geographic epithelial keratitis with stromal keratouveitis. Culture of a corneal swab grew herpes simplex virus type I. Keratouveitis subsided with acycl...

Introduction: Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain. Viral infections are the most common cause of the condition .Encephalitis can cause flu-like symptoms, such as a fever or severe headache. It can also cause confused thinking, seizures, or problems with senses or movement. However, many cases of encephalitis result in only mild flu-like symptoms or even no symptoms. It's important to get ...

mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. there are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and west nile virus infection. in this articl...

G'orneal graft opacification may occur in the course of ocular inflammation' 2 and graft rejection may develop concommitantly or stimulated by the inflammation/' The incidence of immune graft rejections during episodes of iritis or external infections is difficult to document, due to the fact that it is not possible at the present time to separate clinically one process from the other. In our e...

Oral famciclovir was initiated in a health care worker immediately after an accidental percutaneous injury involving a needle freshly removed from a patient's herpes labialis vesicles. In follow-up, the health care worker remained seronegative for herpes simplex I and II antibodies (IgG and IgM) and did not develop herpetic whitlow, supporting the potential role of famciclovir in the prevention...

Herpetic whitlow is a herpes infection of the digits of the hand, first described in 1909, caused by either herpes simplex virus type 1 or type 2. It was not until 1959 that herpetic whitlow was reported to occur in health care professionals. Nurse anesthetists are among the many health care professionals considered to be at high risk for acquiring herpetic whitlow, making it an occupational, b...

the first description of an autoimmune encephalitis dates back to 1888, when hermann oppenheim described a patient with neurological symptoms but no underlying brain pathology. the field of autoimmune encephalitides associated with antibodies targeting cell-surface antigens is rapidly expanding and new antibodies are discovered frequently. autoimmune encephalitis is a difficult clinical diagnos...