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Q: Is there a test that determines when you contracted genital herpes?

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6/17/08 3:57pm

Not that I'm aware of.  You can get titers of levels of the virus but unless you had a baseline that clearly indicated no disease, so you would then know a window of time when you might have become infected, you probably can't isolate out the exact time period.

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