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An 28 year old graduate student comes into the family practice clinic complaining of fever, inguinal adenopathy, and painful vesicular lesions on her genitalia. Physical exam reveals similar lesions on her anal area. She admits to being sexually active. Laboratory: Isolation of an enveloped, linear dsDNA virus from the lesion by cell culture. Tzanck smear shows multinucleated giant cells with intranuclear inclusions. |