[Guidelines for management of genital herpes infection in the experience of a health care center for sexually transmitted diseases in Buenos Aires (Argentina)].

During two years all clinical genital lesions compatible with herpes simplex virus (HSV) etiology were studied systematically through intent of virus isolation in BHK cells. Isolation of virus was confirmed in 85% of the 206 cases studied. All seems to indicate that around the 20% of the isolations belong to the type HSV1 and the rest to the type HSV2. Viral Antigen demonstration, by direct and/or indirect technics with antibodies poly or monoclonals shows to be less sensitive than the virus isolation. The systematic study of these sexually transmitted disease revealed two indicative results: 5.32 cases of Gonococia per each case of HSV were confirmed. It seems to be a possibly relation for the actual epidemiology moment of our country. The other is the need, specially in younger people, to explore systematically syphilis, not only in all the genital ulcers, also in presence of a typical clinical of HSV.