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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1981; 4(4):159-165

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1981.4.4.159

Original Article

Seropidemiologic Study of Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in general population using Complement Fixation Test and Indirect Immunofluorescence Test

Hae Kyung Park
Corresponding author: Hae Kyung Park. Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1981. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

One hundred and fifty-sex sera from general population which were obtainable at Virology Lab, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, U.K . during the period from january to june, 1979 were studied with Complement fixation test and indirect Immunofluorescence test in order to understand epidemiologic pattern of Herpes simplex virus antibodies. An increasing tendency of Herpes simplex virus antibodies with age was observed by both methods in very similar pattern.