The HSVs are part of a large family of DNA viruses, of which eight are known to be infectious in humans. Both HSV types 1 (HSV-1) and 2 (HSV-2) are transmitted across epithelial mucosal cells as ...

HSV-2 has been isolated from normal human sacral ganglia, [28] but the physical state of HSV-2 DNA and HSV-2 gene expression in latently infected human ganglia have not been studied nearly as ...

GSK has abandoned its clinical-stage vaccine for herpes simplex virus (HSV) after a disappointing phase 1/2 trial, ceding the ground to mRNA shots in development at Moderna and BioNTech.

A new combination of microscopy methods has revealed exquisite detail of the virus assembly process used by herpes simplex virus during replication ... contains the viral DNA, a protein layer ...