HPV infections often don’t cause symptoms, but when they do, they can include genital warts, itching, and, rarely, bleeding or lesions. HPV infections are often asymptomatic, so many people are ...

Chancroid is a sexually transmitted infection that causes painful open sores, or chancroids, to develop in the genital area. It can also often cause the lymph nodes in the groin to swell and become ...

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Nonspecific manifestations and a varied distribution of brain lesions can delay the diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) in neonates. The aim of this study was to report predominant brain ...

Background and objectives: Prey ulence of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in the general population is not known. No one test alone can detect all HPV infections. Goal of this study: To ...

June 21, 2022 — Four international medical societies have collaborated on consensus statements for physicians, published in the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease, about how to treat pre-invasive ...

Background and Goal: The changing epidemiology of genital herpes with the increasing importance of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 prompted a study on the relative prevalence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 ...

New research helps explain why infection with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes, increases the risk for HIV infection even after successful treatment heals the genital skin ...

Genital herpes is a common and incurable sexually transmitted disease (STD). It’s so prevalent in the United States that about 1 in 6 people ages 14 to 49 have it. More American women than men have ...

NEW YORK -- A sexually transmitted form of ringworm recently made its way into the United States. So far, there has only been one reported case -- a patient in New York City. Trichophyton ...

You're definitely contagious when you've got an outbreak, and probably for a few days before. Unfortunately, a few people are contagious between outbreaks, even if they don't have symptoms, and there ...