Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a common—and one of the most confusing—infections. Two ...

HSV-2 meningitis might be preceded by pelvic inflammatory disease, genital pain or both, and clinical examination should include a search for vesicular lesions over the external genitalia ...

During the first outbreak, genital herpes lesions tend to remain for around 2 to 6 weeks. Future outbreaks tend to be shorter and milder. Herpes often causes no symptoms, but HSV can still spread ...

While most HSV infections are asymptomatic and can be undiagnosed, infection with HSV-2 recurrent lesions on the genitals occur in some patients and having the infection increases the risk of ...

Patients aged ≥ 18 years with HSV culture-positive persistent (i.e. non-healing) herpetic lesions or who were experiencing ... British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Medical Microbiology ...