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6 years ago
While in its dormant state, herpes simplex virus resides and replicates in the:
 
  A) Local lymph nodes
  B) Subcutaneous tissue
  C) Mucous membrane
  D) Dorsal root ganglia
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6 years ago
Ans: D
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In genital herpes, the virus ascends through the peripheral nerves to the sacral dorsal root ganglia. The virus can remain dormant in the dorsal root ganglia, or it can reactivate, in which case the viral particles are transported back down the nerve root to the skin, where they multiply and cause a lesion to develop. During the dormant or latent period, the virus replicates in a different manner so that the immune system or available treatments have no effect on it. Local lymph nodes respond to the inflammation of reactivation; the mucous membrane becomes erythematous and painful when lesions form; subcutaneous tissue is not damaged by the vesicles and shallow ulcerations.
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