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Disseminated Primary Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection in a 22-Year-Old male
Nathan Erdmann1, Benjamin A Hewitt2, Thomas Prescott Atkinson3
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
|July 17, 2015
Abstract:
We present a case of primary disseminated herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) cutaneous disease in a 22-year-old male. We discuss the immune response to HSV-2 infection as well as the extragenital manifestations of HSV-2 observed in immune-competent and immune-suppressed persons.