Herpes simplex virus and the alimentary tract

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 417-423

  Lavery, Eric A ^a   Coyle, Walter J ^a  

^a SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; ESOPHAGITIS; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROCTITIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS SHEDDING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HERPES SIMPLEX; VIROLOGY;

COLITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; PROCTITIS;

EID: 52049092353     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-008-0078-8     Document Type: Review

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