Detection of HSV-1 DNA in patients with Behcet's syndrome and in patients with recurrent oral ulcers by the polymerase chain reaction
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 34 (1) , 39-43
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-34-1-39
Abstract
Summary. The polymerase chain reaction was used to detect HSV-1 DNA in genomic DNA extracted from peripheral blood leucocytes, in patients with Behcet's syndrome (BS), patients with recurrent oral ulcers and normal healthy controls. A 211-bp HSV-1 DNA fragment was found in a significant number of patients with BS (p <0.02). Serum anti-HSV-1 antibodies were also found in a higher proportion of patients with BS (p <0.02) than in healthy controls. However, virus-specific DNA was not detected in biopsy samples taken from oral ulcers in patients with BS.Keywords
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