background and aims: several drugs are being used in treatment of hsv infection in human but still introducing an effective safe drug is desirable. methods: we investigated the inhibitory effect of morphine on replication of hsv in vitro. results: the results indicated that a concentration of up to 200 ug/ml morphine had a limited effect on vero cell viability. at this concentration the growth ...

background and objectives: meningoencephalitis in iranian children is frequent, but encephalitis is rare .the frequency of hhv-6 and hhv-7 in central nervous system diseases of our children is unclear. the aim of this study was searching the dna-s of hhv-6 & hhv-7 in csf samples of children with meningoencephalitis  materials and methods: a cross sectional study (2007-2009) was done in ped...

Objetivo: Analizar la prevalencia del herpes-virus simple (HSV) en cavidad bucal pacientes mayores a 50 años. Método: Descriptivo documental con revisión de 15 articulos ubicados base datos PubMed. Conclusión: Se determinó luego medir frecuencia absoluta y relativa herpes otras patologías el grupo poblacional seleccionado, se construyeron las distintas distribuciones acuerdo variables edad, sex...

purpose: to present a case of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (hzo) with consequent posterior ischemic optic neuropathy (pion). case report: a 58-year-old woman with a history of hzo in her right eye which was under treatment presented with loss of vision to no light perception. on examination, positive relative afferent pupillary defect was detected; however the optic disc was normal on ophthalmosc...

Herpes are a group of similar viruses that responsible for number infecting diseases, the most important which herpes simplex, zoster and pseudopox. Resistance to traditional antiviral medications is becoming increasingly common, making treatment such infections even more difficult. For example, usage nucleoside analogues like acyclovir target DNA-polymerase virus on regular long-term basis pro...

herpes simplex virus (hsv) causes a wide range of pathologies in the human central nervous system (cns) such as stroke. it was proposed that there is an association between hsv infection and stroke with different results reported by the researchers using different methods. this study aimed to investigate the frequency of hsv among stroke patient and control groups. we detected hsv in 28 stroke ...

conclusions: prevalence of hsv1/2 in mucocutaneous biopsies from pemphigus patients is 2.5% and possibly hsv1/2 has no role in the pathogenesis of pemphigus lesions. but resistant cases to treatment might be suspected to hsv. results: ten patients (25%) had a history of orolabial herpes infection. the results of all samples were negative for hsv1 except one sample which showed the positive resu...