Wirus opryszczki pospolitej typu 1: epidemiologia i udział wirusa w zakażeniach narządów płciowych

© Borgis - Nowa Medycyna 1/2011, s. 16-19

*Anna Majewska¹, Ewa Romejko-Wolniewicz², Julia Zaręba-Szczudlik², Mirosław Łuczak¹, Grażyna Młynarczyk¹

Summary
Infections caused by human herpesviruses on account of their ubiquitous constitute are serious health problem. Social and economic problems and their after - effects impacted on dynamic of spreading an infection, appearing of a new way of transmission and clinical symptoms. The most popular clinical feature of Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection is orolabial infection but the most important problem is genital herpes because of complicantions such as: another sexually transmitted diseases and fetal and newborn infection (neonatal herpes). Genital herpes is one of the commonest sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Additionally, the number of cases caused by HSV-1 has grown due to changing sexual practices. Part of the reason that herpes infections are so common and very easy to transmit is that a lot of infected people suffer asymptomatic infection but periodically shed the virus in their saliva or genital secretions. Genital herpes infections can be associated with serious morbidity. For some adults, acquisition of primary genital herpes can cause painful ulcerative lesions and systemic manifestations, including headache, malaise, and fever lasting up to 3 weeks. Following the initial genital infection, HSV becomes latent in the sacral nerve ganglia and can reactivate to cause recurrent genital lesions. While recurrent episodes are shorter and more localized than first episodes, the chronic nature of this disease and occurrence of recurrences result serious complications for many patients.

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