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Report of Two Cases

Jang O. Oh, MD, PhD; Samuel J. Kimura, MD; H. Bruce Ostler, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1975;93(11):1127-1129.

Abstract
• Acute ocular infections in two adults were caused by type 2 herpes simplex virus (HSV) ("genital herpesvirus"). One patient had an acute blepharoconjunctivitis, the other an acute keratoconjunctivitis. Genital infections had preceded the eye infections, and type 2 HSV was isolated from the eyes of both patients and from the genital lesions of one patient. This strongly suggests transmission of type 2 HSV from the genital site to the eye.

Author Affiliations
From the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology and the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 4, 1974.

Reprint requests to Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 (Dr. Oh).

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