An intensive bout of Googling confirmed my worst fears. Two strains of herpes exist, HSV-1 and HSV-2. Of the two, I had tested positive for genital herpes, HSV-2 with an index value of 2.0 (Any ...

A: HSV-2 is the usual cause of genital herpes, and HSV-1 is the usual cause of oral cold sores. Chickenpox is a related herpes virus, but is not HSV. Let me make a few important points.

Of the 4034 screened couples, 1385 of the susceptible partners (34.3 percent) were HSV-2–positive at the time of screening and hence were ineligible, 799 of the source partners (19.8 percent ...

A positive test result indicates that you were infected with HSV-1 or HSV-2 sometime in the past. A negative result usually means you are not infected, although premature testing before enough ...

Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) serological tests for genital herpes may produce false reactive (false positive) results, according to a recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory.

A positive PCR test for HSV-2 can sometimes confirm a diagnosis of Mollaret’s meningitis. There’s no standard treatment for Mollaret’s meningitis. A 2021 review recommends providing ...

The researchers did a randomised, placebo-controlled phase III trial in HIV-negative, HSV-2 positive women in Africa and men who have sex with men (MSM) from sites in Peru and the USA ...

that they would primarily use samples from HSV-2 positive human patients rather than an animal model, and second, that a longitudinal study design (sampling the same HSV lesions in the same patients ...

Stacy A. Henigsman, DO. HSV-1 or HSV-2 test results may be negative or positive. These results depend on the type of test people take. False results can occur with many diagnostic herpes tests.

16 Retrospective testing of serum samples indicated that at the time of enrollment, 454 of the 889 women involved the CAPRISA 004 trial were positive for HSV-2 antibodies, 5 had equivocal ...