A 24-year-old gravida 1 para 0 woman presented at 27-1/7 weeks’ gestation with preterm labor and spontaneous rupture of membranes for 2 h. Her pregnancy had been uncomplicated to that point, with ...

Assembly Biosciences (NASDAQ:ASMB) Chief Medical Officer Anuj Gaggar outlined the company's virology strategy and upcoming ...

Genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections are frequently asymptomatic or undiagnosed, but more than half the US population is seropositive for HSV, and about one-fifth are positive for HSV-2.

As per the data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO), 3.7 billion people globally have herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV 1) and 491 million have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection ...

Herpes simplex is a virus that belongs to the family herpesviridae, which includes many DNA viruses that affect animals, including humans. The family includes the following 8 types of viruses: The ...

Relatively little is known about the human T-cell response to herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) in the female genital tract, a major site of heterosexual HSV-2 acquisition, transmission, and ...

Who would have thought that something good might come from a herpes virus? It plagues one in six American teens and adults, causes genital ulcers and frequently recurs through reactivation of dormant ...

You might expect a sexual partner to disclose a sexually transmitted infection. But you can’t rely on this – and ...

An investigational drug with a novel mechanism of action reduced the rate of viral shedding in patients with genital herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) infection, researchers reported. In a small, ...

Dr. Keith Roach writes a medical question-and-answer column weekdays. Dear Dr. Roach: If a person has been exposed (verified by blood test) to herpes 1 and 2, can that person be a blood donor? Could a ...