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Herpes simplex in the suprapubic area-KH

John L. Bezzant,M.D.

Note the grouped blisters, and the patient experienced severe pain. This was a medical student and he was concerned about the sexual partner from whom he may have contracted this. The average incubation period is one week or less, and (his sexual partner was a woman). Women can often shed asymptomatically.