Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). The sores look similar ... are limited to the urethra (the tube through which urine exits the ...

As gold standard methods, tube and shell via viral cultures are still applied in some laboratories for the diagnosis of HSV and VZV infections. However, viral culture is time consuming ...

Doctors may also swab sores or blisters that have not yet healed and send the samples to a lab for tests. Anyone who thinks they might have had exposure to HSV and wants to take a test for ...

PCR techniques employed an extraction step of the same initial swab specimen ... request for HSV isolation were tested. Swabs were inoculated onto a single MRC-5 cell culture tube.

Future Virology. 2014;9(8):721-731. Tube viral culture, which is the standard viral culture, can take 3–7 days to provide the final result for HSV, and 7 days to 2 weeks for VZV. If the clinical ...