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Further Reading
Books
All
prices quoted are from Amazon.com
/ Amazon.co.uk as of April 2002. Prices are provided simply as a guide
and the IHA cannot take responsibility for inaccuracies in price.
Genital
and Neonatal Herpes
Lawrence R Stanberry (Editor), Hardback (January 1998). Price: $159.95
Herpes
Simplex (Experience of Illness)
Natasha Posner, Paperback (March 1998). Price: $26.95
Sexually
Transmitted Diseases Sourcebook: Basic Information About Herpes, Chlamydia,
Gonorrhea, Hepatitis, Nongonoccocal Urethritis, Pelvic inflammation
Linda Ross, Peter Dresser. Hardback (June 1992). Price: $78.00
Sexually
Transmitted Diseases: A Physician Tells You What You Need to Know (Johns
Hopkins Press Health Book)
Lisa Marr, Paperback (January 1999). Price: $12.57
The
Truth about Herpes
Stephen L Sacks, Paperback (August 1997). Price: $17.47
Understanding
Herpes (Understanding Health and Sickness Series)
Lawrence R Stanberry, Hardback (March 1998). Hardback price: $28.00
Paperback price: $9.60
Clinical
Management of Herpes Viruses
Stephen L Sacks (Editor), et al. Hardback (January 1995). Price: $120.00
The following clinical papers are written for a specialist physician audience, and provide a greater depth of information about the subject. Whilst not written for a patient audience, they may be useful when you have exhausted other avenues.
The majority of the articles can be obtained via MEDLINE (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/) or through major national libraries. Abstracts of the papers can also be viewed free-of-charge on MEDLINE. Textbooks can be found at large public libraries or at specialist hospital or university libraries.
Diagnosis
Ashley
RL, Wald A. Genital herpes: review of the epidemic and potential
use of type-specific serology. Clin Microbiol Rev 1999;12:1–8.
Genital
herpes – the disease
Corey
L. The current trend in genital herpes: Progress in prevention.
Sex Transm Dis 1994;21:538–544.
How
common is HSV infection?
Fleming
DT, McQuillan GM, Johnson RE, Nahmias AJ, Aral SO, Lee FK, St Louis
ME. Herpes simplex virus type 2 in the United States, 1976 to 1994.
N Engl J Med 1997;337:1105–1111.
Nahmias AJ, Lee FK, Beckman-Nahmias S. Sero-epidemiological and sociological patterns of herpes simplex virus infection in the world. Scand J Infect Dis 1990;69:19–36.
Transmission
Mertz
GJ, Benedetti J, Ashley R, Selke SA, Corey L. Risk factors for the
sexual transmission of genital herpes. Ann Intern Med 1992;116:197–202.
Psychological
impact of HSV
Catotti
DN, Clarke P, Catoe KE. Herpes Revisited: Still a cause for concern.
Sex Transm Dis 1993;20:77–80.
HSV
and pregnancy
Brown
ZA, Selke S, Zeh J, Kopelman J, Maslow A, Ashley RL, Watts DH, Berry
S, Herd M, Corey L. The acquisition of herpes simplex during pregnancy.
New Engl J Med 1997;337:509–515.
HSV
and HIV
Fleming
DT, Wasserheit JN. From epidemiological synergy to public health
policy and practice: the contribution of other sexually transmitted
diseases to sexual transmission of HIV infection. Sex Transm Infect
1999;75:3–17.
Guidelines
for genital herpes management
Drake S,
Taylor S, Brown D Pillay D. Improving the care of patients with
genital herpes. BMJ 2000;321:619–623.
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 1998 Guidelines for treatment of sexually transmitted disease. MMWR 1998;47:1–111.
Clinical Effectiveness Group (Association of Genitourinary Medicince and the Medical Society for the study of Venereal Diseases). National Guidelines for the management of genital herpes. Sex Transm Infect 1999;75(Suppl 1):S24–S28.