Incidence of reported cases genital herpes in different countries has increased dramatically during the last years, which is essentially caused by spread asymptomatic or atypical types herpes. Frequent relapses infection are characterized changes immunological status. The authors presented article analysed findings foreign and domestic studies on treatment disease, systematized information abou...

Members of the herpesvirus family typically establish intimate and lifelong relationships with their hosts. An acute primary infection generally subsides after several days and immunity may be shown by various methods. Despite this the virus may persist, often subclinically, or remain latent, sometimes giving rise to recurrent disease. For example, herpes labialis and genitalis are common disea...

A 34-year-old Hispanic man who had been diagnosed as having human immunodeficiency virus 5 years earlier presented with a 5-month history of herpes simplex virus (HSV) 2 infection of the penis. His CD4 cell count was 200/μL, and his viral load was undetectable. He had been receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy for 11 months. Before he developed HSV-2 infection, he had no history of gen...

Herpes zoster (Shingles; Zona) is an acute infectious skin disease that is caused by the reactivation of varicella zoster virus (VZV). After the initial infection (chickenpox) or vaccination, the virus remains inactive or latent in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG); when decreasing cell mediated immunity (CMI) occurs, the virus is reactivated from a latent phase to a lytic phase and frequently repl...

introduction: herpes labialis is important in dentistry because of its high prevalence. herpes simplex virus (hsv) is responsive to treatment and infection control methods help protect patients and dental personnel. due to high levels of stress in the flight crew this study evaluated the prevalence of recurrent herpes labialis in the personnel of an airline company. materials and methods: in th...

h.pylori is one of the common infectious agent that involves in acute and chronic gastritis, peptic scar and gastric cancer. the infection episode in children ranges between 10 to 80 percent and the high frequency in developing countries. the goal of this study was to determine the incident of h.pylori in the patients carried out to endoscopy and the effective factors. in this study, 50 patient...

BACKGROUND We sought to assess whether GFS, a proprietary preparation of Tasmanian Undaria pinnatifida, has effects on healing or re-emergence of Herpetic infections, and additionally, to assess effects of GFS in vitro. Undaria is the most commonly eaten seaweed in Japan, and contains sulphated polyanions and other components with potential anti-viral activity. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-...

Patients with SLE carry an increased risk of infection that account for 11-23% of all hospitalized patients and 50% of all SLE patients develop major infections during the course of their disease. Globally Herpes Zoster has been reported as the most frequent viral infection in SLE patients. We determined the clinical spectrum, disease sequelae and the risk factors associated with the developmen...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a pathogen of emerging importance for patients with septic shock. In this prospective study, 25 immunocompetent CMV-seropositive patients with septic shock and an intensive care unit stay of > or =7 days were monitored by using quantitative pp65-antigenemia assay, shell vial culture, and virus isolation. Within 2 weeks, active CMV infection with low-level pp65-antigenem...