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Unexpected bottleneck identified in spread of herpes simplex virus

November 5, 2012 by

New research suggests that just one or two individual herpes virus particles attack a skin cell in the first stage of an outbreak, resulting in a bottleneck in which the infection may be vulnerable to medical treatment.

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