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Is HSV Or HPV Transmission Possible Through Contact With Infected Genital Skin?

Posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2015

Question: how can herpes and hpv transfer through skins ? what are the factors?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Kakkar (45 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Skin to skin rubbing help seed the infecting virus

Detailed Answer:
Hello. Thank you for writing to us.

Herpes and Hpv are infections of skin and genital mucosa. Skin to skin rubbing would help in seed the virus through the minute abrasions induced by rubbing of skin against each other e.g as might happen during sexual intercourse or genital rubbing

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Dr. Kakkar (2 minutes later)

and they can identified through blood test ?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Kakkar (3 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Genital herpes can be detected by blood test

Detailed Answer:
Hi.

Genital herpes can certainly be identified with blood test, however, for Hpv there is no blood test. Hpv can be identified with a HPV DNA PCR test from skin scraping.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar