title: Serum antibodies to herpes simplex virus type 1 during active oral herpes infection.
abstract: Subjects with oral herpes lesions at the time of serum sampling had higher-efficiency antibody (higher proportion of neutralizing antibody as determined by plaque reduction, compared with total antibody as detected by radioimmunoassay) to herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) than did subjects with no lesions at the time of serum sampling. These higher-efficiency sera also had higher antibody titers to structural components of herpes simplex virus type 1 than did the low-efficiency sera. Absorption of high- and low-efficiency sera with purified herpes simplex virus type 1 particles removed all neutralizing antibody but not all antibody detected by radioimmunoassay. High-efficiency serum was depleted of more antibody to particulate antigen that was the low-efficiency serum, indicating that the high-efficiency serum contained a higher proportion of antibody to the virus particle.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000276:immunology*; D013283:Stomatitis, Herpetic / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000956:Antigens, Viral