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Volume 38, Issue 6 for July 2011

Recurrent intra-oral herpes simplex 1 infection

The human herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) is a member of the Herpesviradae family (Table 1).1 All herpes viruses share characteristic architecture, all being close to 200 nm in diameter and consisting of a liquid crystalline DNA core surrounded by a nucleocapsid and envelope.