title: [Genital herpes infection in Chilean female university students].
abstract: This article reports on the prevalence of genital herpes infection in a sample of 635 female university students who were seen at the Gynecology Center of the University of Chile Student Medical Service. Viral isolation of genital secretions yielded 18 students (2.8%) with positive results, of whom 28% were asymptomatic shedders. Of the positive cases, 61% were clinically classified as recurrent and 39% as first episodes of genital herpes. Fluorescent monoclonal antibody typing of the isolated strains revealed that 72% were herpes simplex type 2 and 28% were type 1. The results confirm the importance of type 2 virus in genital herpes infections. They also point to asymptomatic shedders as a potential source of infection, and show the importance of a history of genital herpes in the identification of this population.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suárez
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Briones
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dubinovsky
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aliaga
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alarcón
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: de Diego
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grünberg
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: del Solar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002677:Chile; D005260:Female; D006558:Herpes Genitalis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000302:isolation & purification
vernacular_title: Infección genital herpética en estudiantes universitarias Chilenas.