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PART 8: Infectious Diseases
SECTION 12   Infections Due to DNA Viruses

179 Herpes Simplex Virus Infections
Lawrence Corey

Figure 179-1  Genital herpes: primary vulvar infection. Multiple, extremely painful, punched-out, confluent, shallow ulcers on the edematous vulva and perineum. Micturition is often very painful. Associated inguinal lymphadenopathy is common. (Reprinted with permission from K Wolff, RA Johnson, D Summond: Fitzpatrick's...
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Figure 179-2  CT and diffusion-weighted MRI scans of the brain of a patient with left-temporal-lobe HSV encephalitis.
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