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Risk of HSV-2 Acquisition Among Women with Bacterial Vaginosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Viruses
Objective: Bacterial vaginosis is a dysbiosis of the vaginal microbiome, typically characterized by a loss of Lactobacillus. Lactobacillus plays a crucial role in vaginal immunity and protection against sexually transmitted infections.
Taylor N. Whitt, Alexis Heath, D’Atra J. Hill, Douglas K. Brubaker, Christina Farr Zuend   +4 more
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Subacute herpes simplex virus type 1 encephalitis as an initial presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and multiple sclerosis: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2011
Introduction Herpes simplex virus type 1 encephalitis presents acutely in patients who are immunocompetent. We report what we believe to be the first published case of a subacute course of herpes simplex virus type 1 encephalitis in a patient with ...
Corman Lourdes C, Singhal Rashi L
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Risk factors for herpes simplex virus type 2 and HIV among women at high risk in northwestern Tanzania: preparing for an HSV-2 intervention trial. [PDF]

, 2007
OBJECTIVES: To determine prevalence of and risk factors for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) and HIV among women being screened for a randomized, controlled trial of HSV suppressive therapy in northwestern Tanzania. METHODS: Two thousand seven hundred
Mugeye, Kokugonza, Hayes, Richard J, Balira, Rebecca, Knight, Louise, Ross, David, Changalucha, John, Weiss, Helen A, Baisley, Kathy, Watson-Jones, Deborah, Rusizoka, Mary, Everett, Dean   +10 more
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A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial of Oral Acyclovir in Renal Allograft Recipients

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1993
Fifty renal transplant patients were randomized to receive either 800 mg acyclovir by mouth four times daily or identical placebo tablets for prophylaxis of herpes simplex infection. Patients were followed weekly to assess reactivation of herpes simplex,
Walter F Schlech, Nancy Meagher, Allan D Cohen, Philip Belitsky, AS MacDonald, John C LeBlanc   +5 more
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Fatal fulminant herpes simplex hepatitis secondary to tongue piercing in an immunocompetent adult: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2008
Introduction Herpes simplex infection is most commonly a benign, self-limiting disease with mucocutaneous lesions and mild viremia. Immunosuppressed patients are at a higher risk of disseminated infection, as are neonates and pregnant women.
Lakhan Shaheen E, Harle Lindsey
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Population-level effect of potential HSV2 prophylactic vaccines on HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

, 2009
Herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV2) infection increases HIV transmission. We explore the impact of a potential prophylactic HSV2 vaccination on HIV incidence in Africa using STDSIM an individual-based model.
Orroth, K. K., Buve, A, Hayes, Richard J., Weiss, Helen A, Hayes, R. J., Glynn, Judith R., Glynn, Judith R, Weiss, H. A., White, Richard G, Hayes, Richard J, White, Richard G., Bakker, R., Weiss, Helen A., Orroth, Kate K, Buvé, Anne, Freeman, EE, Glynn, J. R., Weiss, HA, White, R. G., Freeman, Esther E, Freeman, Esther E., Freeman, E. E., Buvé, A., White, RG, Glynn, JR, Orroth, KK, Orroth, Kate K., Bakker, Roel, Hayes, RJ   +28 more
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Control of herpes simplex virus type 1 latency in human trigeminal ganglia [PDF]

, 2012
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is a double-stranded DNA virus that infects humans and, after a primary lytic infection, establishes lifelong latency in the sensory neurons of the trigeminal ganglia (TG).
Held, Kathrin
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Herpes simplex ulcerative esophagitis in healthy children

The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2011
Herpes simplex virus is a common cause of ulcerative esophagitis in the immunocompromised or debilitated host. Despite a high prevalence of primary and recurrent Herpes simplex virus infection in the general population, Herpes simplex virus esophagitis ...
Abdulrahman A Al-Hussaini, Mosa A Fagih
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Interleukin 1β receptor and synaptic dysfunction in recurrent brain infection with Herpes simplex virus type-1

Neural Regeneration Research
Several experimental evidence suggests a link between brain Herpes simplex virus type-1 infection and the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this association are not completely understood.
Roberto Piacentini, Claudio Grassi
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Herpes simplex 1 encephalitis presenting as a brain haemorrhage with normal cerebrospinal fluid analysis: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2008
Introduction Herpes simplex encephalitis is a potentially lethal infection that should be recognised as soon as possible. The combination of clinical history and examination, brain computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging and lumbar puncture has
Gkrania-Klotsas Effrossyni, Lever Andrew ML   +1 more
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