This service is probably of great interest for any user of the website. Global Links shows a global map and provides further links to local and national herpes management forum subsidiaries. It aims to provide clinicians with a regular update on key issues and recommendations relating to all aspects of patient management of herpesvirus infections and their sequelae. All papers are carefully referenced and contain concise information without leaving out important details. The understanding of virological and immunological features is explicitly enhanced by photographs and schematic figures explaining viral replication and the immune response.
Clear tables inform the reader at a quick glance about historical dates and clinical features.
The clinical pictures relating to visible clinical manifestations in patients with VZV, CMV, HHV 6 and EBV infections are impressive. This combination is usually the hallmark of top journals with high impact factors. It might also be of interest for those basic virologists and virologists specialized in diagnostics who like to keep in touch with clinical medicine. This large site has the most comprehensive collection imaginable of monographs, original papers and pictures on herpesvirus infections. Complete monographs can be downloaded from the Library section or, alternatively, there are shorter management guidelines on such topics as herpesvirus infections in pregnancy and clinical implications of latency.