[Detection of viremia in children with manifestations of an oral herpes infection].

Immunofluorescent examination of blood smears from 155 children aged from 1 to 11 years with manifestations of herpetic infection in the oral cavity (primary acute stomatitis diagnosed in 108, recurrent in 47) was carried out. Antigens of herpes virus in blood leukocytes from sick children were detected in 50.9 +/- 4.8% of cases of acute stomatitis and in 51.0 +/- 7.3% of cases in the period of exacerbation of chronic stomatitis. Herpes virus antigens were detected significantly more frequently in the specimens obtained in the febrile period and in those collected during the first 3 days of the disease or relapse. Examinations of 30 children of the control group yielded herpes virus antigen in 1 case only.