ArticleSexually transmitted infections1998
Role of type specific herpes simplex virus serology in the diagnosis and management of genital herpes.
Article in Sexually transmitted infections, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- 2024 European guidelines for the management of genital herpes.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2025Guideline
- Genital herpes.Sexually transmitted infections · 2006Guideline
- HSV type specific serology in sexual health clinics: use, benefits, and who gets tested.Sexually transmitted infections · 2004Trial
- Europium nanoparticle-based lateral flow assay for rapid detection of herpes simplex virus 2-specific antibodies in serum: a preliminary evaluation.RSC advances · 2026Article
- [Management of genital herpes].Dermatologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Diagnosis of Herpes Simplex Virus: Laboratory and Point-of-Care Techniques.Infectious disease reports · 2021Review
- Computational sensing of herpes simplex virus using a cost-effective on-chip microscope.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Diagnostics for herpes simplex virus: is PCR the new gold standard?Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2006Review
- The acceptability of the introduction of a type specific herpes antibody screening test into a genitourinary medicine clinic in the United Kingdom.Sexually transmitted infections · 2003Article
- Genital herpes serotesting: a study of the epidemiology and patients' knowledge and attitude among STD clinic attenders in Coventry, UK.Sexually transmitted infections · 2003Article
- Using the evidence base on genital herpes: optimising the use of diagnostic tests and information provision.Sexually transmitted infections · 2002Review
- Comparative performance of herpes simplex virus type 2-specific serologic assays from Meridian Diagnostics and MRL diagnostics.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2001Article
- Sorting out the new HSV type specific antibody tests.Sexually transmitted infections · 2001Review
- Recent advances: Sexually transmitted infections.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001Review
- Diagnosing genital ulcer disease in a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2001Article
- An evaluation of near patient tests for detecting herpes simplex virus type-2 antibody.Sexually transmitted infections · 2000Article
- Recent advances in management of genital herpes.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2000Review
- Comparison of a monoclonal antibody-blocking enzyme-linked immunoassay and a strip immunoblot assay for identifying type-specific herpes simplex virus type 2 serological responses.Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology · 2000Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesTo investigate the indications for the use of a type specific antibody test for herpes simplex virus in a department of genitourinary medicine in the United Kingdom.
methodRetrospective analysis of case records of 127 patients who accepted the test during a 20 month period. RESULTS/
conclusionThe test contributed to patient management in 79% of patients with recurrent genital ulceration of unknown cause. It was also useful for counselling a number of patients with initial episodes of disease and the asymptomatic partners of some patients when the partners were shown to possess antibodies specific to herpes simplex virus type 2. When evaluating sexual partners, the test was difficult to interpret if an isolate from the index case had not been typed. Access to viral typing may therefore be a greater priority than serological testing. As adverse psychological sequelae may follow the identification of an asymptomatic chronic infection, guidelines for the use of a type specific serological test are proposed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.