Abstract:Now that various drugs for treating patients suffering from herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections are available (I, 3, 5, 6, 11), it is desirable to give a quick and accurate diagnosis by a method feasible for clinical laboratories. It is also necessary to determine the type of HSV to trace the route of infection as well as to accumulate data for epidemiological analysis. Isolation of the virus from patients followed by a microneutralization test for viral identification and typing (8,12), if performed within … Show more
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