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ArticleAdvances in virology2015

Seroprevalence of Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in HIV Coinfected Individuals in Eastern India with Risk Factor Analysis.

Soumyabrata Nag, Soma Sarkar, Debprasad Chattopadhyay, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Rahul Biswas, Manideepa SenGupta

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Article in Advances in virology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Soumyabrata NagDepartment of Microbiology, IIMSAR & BCRH, Haldia, West Bengal, India.
Soma SarkarDepartment of Microbiology, Medical College Kolkata, 88 College Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Debprasad ChattopadhyayICMR Virus Unit, I.D. and B.G. Hospital, GB-4, 1st Floor, 57 Dr. S. C. Banerjee Road, Beliaghata, Kolkata, India.
Sanjoy BhattacharyaDepartment of Medicine, Medical College Kolkata, 88 College Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Rahul BiswasDepartment of Community Medicine, A.I.I.H. & P.H., Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Manideepa SenGuptaDepartment of Microbiology, Medical College Kolkata, 88 College Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
KPC Medical College and Hospital · INIndian Council of Medical Research · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is the cause of most genital herpes while HSV-1 is responsible for orolabial and facial lesions. In immunocompromised individuals, like HIV patients, impaired immunity leads to more frequent symptomatic and asymptomatic HSV infection. Fifty-two blood samples from HIV patients with clinically diagnosed HSV infection were taken as cases, while 45 blood samples each from HIV-infected (HIV control) and noninfected patients without any herpetic lesion (non-HIV control) were taken as control. Serum was tested for IgM and IgG antibodies of both HSV-1 and HSV-2 by ELISA. The seroprevalence was compared among the three groups of study population, considering the demographic and socioeconomic parameters. The HSV-2 IgM was significantly higher (p < 0.005) in the HIV patient group (34.6%) than the HIV control (2.2%) and non-HIV control (2.2%) groups, whereas HSV-2 IgG seroprevalence was higher in both HIV patient (61.5%) and HIV control (57.8%) groups than the non-HIV control group (17.8%). The prevalence of HSV-2 was significantly higher in persons with multiple partners and in the reproductive age group. The overall seroprevalence of HSV-1 IgM was too low (<5%), whereas it was too high (about 90%) with HSV-1 IgG in all three study groups.

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