Herpes

There are two lines of research we are pursuing in our lab currently.

According to several sources, infectious keratitis is the fifth leading cause of blindness in the world.

In the past decade, STDs have increased among women aged at least 55 years, highlighting the importance of discussing sexual partners, sexual history and condom use with all patients, regardless of age.

Of the cases referred to me for management of dry eye, many turn out to be manifestations of nerve damage subsequent to an untreated viral infection, such as herpes zoster ophthalmicus.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force still does not recommend serologic screening for genital herpes infection in adults who do not exhibit signs or symptoms, according to a final recommendation statement published in JAMA.

People aged 50 years or older with COVID-19 had a 15% increased risk for developing herpes zoster, according to the results of a large retrospective cohort study.

Despite a decline in herpes simplex virus type 2 infections over the course of decades, researchers calculated that more than 600,000 new infections will still occur every year in the U.S., leading to almost 20 million new cases by 2050.

Adult vaccination coverage and compliance varies substantially by state, even with adjustments for individual state-characteristics, according to study results presented at IDWeek.

Herpes simplex virus type 1 may be responsible for some cases of Alzheimer’s disease, or AD, according to a recently developed three-dimensional model of the human brain.