Herpes Simplex Virus
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Promoting Fetal & Maternal Health Nursing Care — Maternal & Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing & Childrearing Family▶ 3:05And when we talk about infections, we'll be touching on highly infectious teratogens that can pass from the patient to the fetusThings like cytomegalovirus or CMV, herpes simplex virus,HSV, and the parasites that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis, these are often so mild for the parent, but they can be devastating…Sexually Transmitted Infections — Maternity and Pediatric Nursing▶ 35:57Genital herpes is a recurrent, lifelong viral infectionTo understand it, you have to differentiate between the two primary serotypes, herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV1, and herpes simplex…Traditionally, HSV1 was responsible for oral lesions, the common cold sores or fever blisters, and HSV2 was strictly responsible for genital lesionsSexually Transmitted and Other Infections — Maternity and Women's Health Care▶ 15:00RightNow moving to herpes simplex virus, or HSV, we see a totally different mechanism of viral persistenceWe traditionally associate HSV1 with oral lesions and HSV2 with genital lesions