Herpes gladiatorum

Robert Debernardo; Edward A. Belongia; Jesse L. Goodman; Michael T. Osterholm

doi:10.1056/NEJM199202273260919

Herpes gladiatorum

Robert Debernardo, Edward A. Belongia, Jesse L. Goodman, Michael T. Osterholm

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To the Editor: In the article by Belongia et al. on an outbreak of herpes gladiatorum at a high-school wrestling camp (Sept. 26 issue),¹ I failed to see a mention of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Was HIV testing done? Because of the fears it may provoke, HIV transmission by wrestling is an unspoken concern of some athletic directors. Given the frequency of open lesions in this contact sport and the recent finding by Hazcltine² that dendritic cells (differentiated from Langerhans cells in the skin) are extremely sensitive to infection by HIV type 1, this mode of transmission cannot be.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	647-648
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	326
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199202273260919
State	Published - Feb 27 1992

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