title: Unusual presentation of herpes simplex virus infection in a boxer: 'Boxing glove herpes'.
abstract: Herein, we describe a patient with lesions of cutaneous herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection over the knuckles of both hands in the context of an outbreak among boxers. Interestingly, the infection had an unusually long duration (4 weeks), and was not acquired directly through skin-to-skin contact, as it usually does among athletes (herpes gladiatorum). In our case, transmission was acquired through the use of shared boxing gloves contaminated by HSV-1. To the best of our knowledge, herpes gladiatorum, or wrestler's herpes, has not been described previously in boxers and infection over the knuckles is not commonly reported.
authors: Departments of Dermatology Internal Medicine, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain.
authors: Begoña
authors: B
authors: García-García
authors: Cristina
authors: C
authors: Galache-Osuna
authors: Pablo
authors: P
authors: Coto-Segura
authors: Héctor
authors: H
authors: Suárez-Casado
authors: Susana
authors: S
authors: Mallo-García
authors: Jorge Santos-Juanes
authors: JS
authors: Jiménez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001914:Boxing; D006225:Hand; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D018259:Herpesvirus 1, Human; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male