Asymptomatic Shedding Rates

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Eric - 20 Oct 2006 18:15 GMT

I found a good review article on the rates of asymptomatic shedding of
HSV. Oral HSV-1 appears to shed 7-10% of the time, while genital HSV-2
appears to shed 4.7% of the time.

http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/45/suppl_4/1.pdf

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Perl Molson - 21 Oct 2006 18:59 GMT

statistici...

I would like to see how this asymptomatic shedding works,
in research papers.

> I found a good review article on the rates of asymptomatic shedding of
> HSV. Oral HSV-1 appears to shed 7-10% of the time, while genital HSV-2
> appears to shed 4.7% of the time.
>
> http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/45/suppl_4/1.pdf

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