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 ...

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 ...

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Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of a 1-day course of valacyclovir in reducing the duration and severity of genital herpes recurrences and to measure the frequency of viral shedding episodes ...

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 ...

Twenty percent of under-50s worldwide are infected with genital herpes, with 42 million new cases being recorded in 2020 ...

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 ...

In the setting of the current monkeypox outbreak it is important to consider different clinical courses. This includes skin changes/lesions that are primarily localized at the presumed inoculation ...