Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD HSV-1 usually causes oral herpes, while HSV-2 primarily affects the genitals.Herpes often ...

Cold sores are common infections in children. They’re also called fever blisters, oral herpes, or herpes labialis. Despite their name, cold sores don’t have anything to do with colds. Cold sores are ...

Herpes simplex virus partially liquefies the tightly packed, gel-like interior of human cell nuclei to copy itself faster, a new study shows. The research centers on how the nucleus of each human cell ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO Key Takeaways Herpes on the penis looks like clusters of small, fluid-filled ...

Defects in a single protein involved in cell death may impair the immune system's ability to combat a herpes viral infection in the central nervous system, scientists have found in new research that ...

Describe the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with acyclovir exposure and herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. Our primary analysis was ...

Ms Mulindwa added: "'When symptoms do occur, they may include painful blisters or ulcers around the genitals, anus or mouth, ...

In a recent study published in the Virology Journal, a group of researchers evaluated the antiviral efficacy and therapeutic potential of harmol in treating herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) induced ...

The incidence of neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in the UK and Ireland increased dramatically over 15 years, and outcomes remained poor, with mortality and long-term neurologic ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by visible changes within the brain several years before the clinical stage of dementia [1], including hippocampal atrophy and ...

In one discovery, Roizman established that nurses had been transmitting HSV between infants, leading to better hygiene in ...