It's possible for oral herpes to cause genital herpes and vice versa Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO The virus that causes cold sores—herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)—also can cause ...

Herpes simplex virus is a common infection that typically appears in and around the mouth (oral herpes) or the genitals (genital herpes). Ulcers may cause pain but usually resolve within a few days or ...

HSV-1 usually causes oral herpes, while HSV-2 primarily affects the genitals. You may not know you have herpes because it ...

The herpes simplex virus-1 can sometimes cause a dangerous brain infection. Combining an anti-inflammatory and an antiviral could help in these cases, report scientists with the Rajewsky and ...

A recent study In Press at the Journal of Cell Biology reports that herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) exploits heterochromatin to successfully exit the nucleus. The heterochromatin markers macroH2A1 and ...

Inhibiting the herpes simplex virus type 1 viral enzyme uracil-DNA glycosylase reactivates the natural defense protein apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-1 (APOBEC1) in the ...

Until recently, scientists had assumed that there are about 80 open reading frames (ORFs) in the genome of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). Now researchers at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) ...