TY - JOUR AU - Corey, Lawrence AB - EDITORIAL C OMMENT ARY Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 and HIV-1: The Dialogue between the 2 Organisms Continues Lawrence Corey Program in Infectious Diseases, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (See the articles by Kapiga et al., on pages 1260–9, and Cachay et al., on pages 1270–7.) This issue of the Journal continues the di- acquisition. Since initially reported by our based concern about the interaction be- alogue on the interaction between HIV group and other researchers in San Fran- tween these 2 agents versus those of other and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2). cisco in cohorts of highly sexually active genital ulcer diseases is the much higher Two articles in this issue, one by Kapiga MSM studied in the early 1980s [4, 5], prevalence of HSV-2 versus that of Trep- et al. [1], describing a cohort of women 135 studies detailed in 2 separate meta onema pallidum or Haemophilus ducreyi in in Tanzania, and the other by Cachay et analyses have shown that prevalent HSV- most populations throughout the world al. [2], describing a cohort of largely men 2 increases the risk of HIV-1 [6, 7]. The TI - Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 and HIV-1: The Dialogue between the 2 Organisms Continues JF - Journal of Infectious Diseases DO - 10.1086/513570 DA - 2007-05-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/herpes-simplex-virus-type-2-and-hiv-1-the-dialogue-between-the-2-Wi7dMBkkQM SP - 1242 EP - 1244 VL - 195 IS - 9 DP - DeepDyve ER -