Genital
herpes test is an important thing to do. It can help
you to make sure whether you are really having genital herpes attack or not. In
fact, such test needed to make perfect decision for treatment type to take.
This herpes simplex virus is needed to do for you who have genital sores or
newborn from vaginal birth that suspected as herpes genital patient. Usually,
there are two type of method that used during the test. Those are herpes
culture and HSV DNA testing or PCR.
The genital herpes test
usually using the HSV antibody testing to diagnose if there is any infection
occur. It works by collecting the blood samples after collecting the acute
sample. If there is any rise on HSV IgG antibody level that it can be the
indication of the herpes simplex virus infection. You can do this HSV DNA
testing or herpes culture when you have genital sores. Doctor also can order
HSV DNA testing when you have encephalitis symptom.
More regular test will
be suggested for pregnant woman. If your newborn baby has skin lesion or
meningitis then you can take the test to make sure whether you and your baby have
HSV infection or not. Person that have man that have sex with man, multiple sex
partner, infected with HIV, risk in HIV or sex partner with herpes. You can get
significant test result by comparing the acute and convalescent sample. Negative
HSV antibody can have the meaning that the person does not get infected or have
sufficient time to produce HSV antibodies.
For newborn, genital herpes
can be serious threat. It is simply because they are getting infected during
birth when they do not have enough sufficient immune level. The only possible
thing to happen is the extensive lesion that will persist longer than adult who
commonly have healthy immune. HSV also can make the patient get higher risk of
HIV. It is even can lead into another severe disease like cervical cancer since
it is combined with human papilloma virus.
