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What is your approach to management of patients with recurrent orolabial herpes?

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Infectious Disease · Emory University Hospital

Recurrent orolabial herpes is fundamentally a disease of viral latency with episodic reactivation, so my approach focuses less on “treating infection” and more on reducing recurrence burden, shortening symptom duration, and improving quality of life. First, I make sure we are actually dealing with H...

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