The morbidity and mortality of neonatal herpes simplex virus infection remains unacceptably high despite antiviral therapy. A better understanding of factors that might contribute to this poor outcome is needed but has been hindered by a lack of a good animal model. The recently describid guinea pig
Effect of l-lysine monohydrochloride on cutaneous herpes simplex virus in the guinea pig
β Scribed by E. Ayala; D. Krikorian
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 484 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0146-6615
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