Herpes simplex virus infection: Management of primary oral lesions in children

Primary herpetic gingivostomatitis (PHGS) represents the most observed clinical feature of primary herpes infection with the simplex virus (HSV). It is often caused by HSV‐1 and affects children most of the time. Unlike, the majority of primary HSV infections that is asymptomatic. It may be preceded...

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Autores principales: Khalifa, Chaima, Slim, Afef, Maroua, Garma, Sioud, Sameh, Hentati, Hajer, Selmi, Jamil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9347697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35937022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6127
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author Khalifa, Chaima
Slim, Afef
Maroua, Garma
Sioud, Sameh
Hentati, Hajer
Selmi, Jamil
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description Primary herpetic gingivostomatitis (PHGS) represents the most observed clinical feature of primary herpes infection with the simplex virus (HSV). It is often caused by HSV‐1 and affects children most of the time. Unlike, the majority of primary HSV infections that is asymptomatic. It may be preceded by some prodromal symptoms like fever, anorexia, irritability, malaise, and headache. After the resolution of the primary infection, the virus remains latent in a nervous ganglion. The aim of the present paper was to report a case of severe PHGS with herpetic whitlow in a 10‐year‐old child.
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spelling pubmed-93476972022-08-05 Herpes simplex virus infection: Management of primary oral lesions in children Khalifa, Chaima Slim, Afef Maroua, Garma Sioud, Sameh Hentati, Hajer Selmi, Jamil Clin Case Rep Case Report Primary herpetic gingivostomatitis (PHGS) represents the most observed clinical feature of primary herpes infection with the simplex virus (HSV). It is often caused by HSV‐1 and affects children most of the time. Unlike, the majority of primary HSV infections that is asymptomatic. It may be preceded by some prodromal symptoms like fever, anorexia, irritability, malaise, and headache. After the resolution of the primary infection, the virus remains latent in a nervous ganglion. The aim of the present paper was to report a case of severe PHGS with herpetic whitlow in a 10‐year‐old child. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9347697/ /pubmed/35937022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6127 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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