Changing epidemiology of herpes simplex virus infections.

What it found

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Global epidemiology of neonatal herpes: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions.Journal of global health · 2026
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2. Estimated global and regional incidence and prevalence of herpes simplex virus infections and genital ulcer disease in 2020: mathematical modelling analyses.Sexually transmitted infections · 2025
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3. Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 1 in Canada: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions.Frontiers in public health · 2023
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4. The Epidemiology of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 in Asia: Systematic Review, Meta-analyses, and Meta-regressions.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019
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5. Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) 0ΔNLS Live-Attenuated Vaccine Protects against Ocular HSV-1 Infection in the Absence of Neutralizing Antibody in HSV-1 gB T Cell Receptor-Specific Transgenic Mice.Journal of virology · 2020
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6. Negative epidemiological association between HSV-1 and HSV-2 infections.Heliyon · 2019
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7. Characterizing the transitioning epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 1 in the USA: model-based predictions.BMC medicine · 2019
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8. Estimating seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 1 among different Middle East and North African male populations residing in Qatar.Journal of medical virology · 2018
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9. HSV-1 clinical isolates with unique in vivo and in vitro phenotypes and insight into genomic differences.Journal of neurovirology · 2017
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and antibody response to primary infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 in young women.2013
• Erratum issued

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Abstract

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