Suppressive therapy for recurrent cutaneous herpes infections in children under 12 years: An observational study.

Efficacy of suppressive therapy for recurrent HSV infection was assessed by the number of HSV flares under suppressive therapy compared with the number of flares before treatment and the number of flares between children who received suppressive therapy and children who did not. Infections by herpes simplex virus (HSV) are widespread and have a large range of clinical manifestations. There are less data on the treatment of recurrences of HSV infection, especially in children, where very few data are available, and there are no trials neither guidelines. [Extracted from the article]