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Definition The Pathogen Among the herpesviruses, HSV-1 and HSV-2 are most closely related, with approximately 60% genomic homology. Historically, HSV-1 was more frequently associated with nongenital (especially orolabial) disease and HSV-2 with genital disease, but that distinction has become blurred…
“O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream, Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues….” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , Act 1, Scene 4, p. 4 More than 2500 years ago Hippocrates used the Greek term herpes ,…