[Molecular epidemiologic investigation on HSV infection among married women at childbearing age]

By PCR and ELISA, an investigation on HSV infection of cervix was carried out among 120 married women. The results indicated that the total infection rate was 23.3% (28/120). In HSV infection of cervix, HSV-2 constituted 89.3%. The positive rate of HSV in the cervicitis group and normal control group was 28.9% (26/90) and 6.7% (2/30), respectively, showing a marked difference: the positive rate in the group from 21 to 30 years old was 16.7% (7/43), from 31 to 40 was 34.6% (9/26); the positive rate in the group from rural areas was 30.8% (16/52), in the group from city was 17.6% (2/18).