How do I get testing or treatment for Bacterial Herpes Simplex?

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If you think you might have Herpes simplex virus it's important to be tested . Cultures are helpful if the patients present early enough but viral shedding only lasts a few days and often the lesion has crusted or disappeared by the time the patients is seen. Thus, a negative culture would not definitely rule out herpes. Measuring HSV DNA by PCR assay is more sensitive for detecting HSV in a lesion than a viral culture and will distinguish between HSV-1 and HSV-2. 

NHS: Herpes simplex testing is free on the NHS from genitourinary medicine clinics, sexual health clinics, many contraception clinics, your GP and pharmacies. You can find a clinic to help with Herpes Simplex by phoning directory enquiries and asking for genitourinary medicine, sexually transmitted disease or venereal disease or locate one using our NHS Genitourinary Medicine Clinic page in the Sexual Health Section of our website. 

PRIVATE:Alternatively you can have confidential private herpes simplex virus testing based on an internet ordered urine home sample kit.   Telephone 0345 2303386 or use the  Confidential Text Service 07786202070 

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