HSV-2

 Dictionary entry overview: What does HSV-2 mean? 

• HSV-2 (noun)
  The noun HSV-2 has 1 sense:

1. a herpes virus that can cause genital herpes

  Familiarity information: HSV-2 used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HSV-2 (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A herpes virus that can cause genital herpes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

herpes simplex 2; HS2; HSV-2; HSV-II

Hypernyms ("HSV-2" is a kind of...):

herpes simplex; herpes simplex virus (a herpes virus that affects the skin and nervous system)

 Context examples 

To test this hypothesis, scientists from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) infected mice with HSV-1 and guinea pigs with HSV-2 and randomly assigned the animals to different treatment groups.

(Glutamine suppresses herpes in mice and guinea pigs, National Institutes of Health)

NV1020 is constructed from the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) by the deletion of a single copy of the gamma (1)34.5 gene and the substitution of the UL23 region of the thymidine kinase (tk) gene with a DNA fragment from HSV-2, thereby resulting in a replication-competent, attenuated virus.

(NV1020, NCI Thesaurus)

Results showed that mice that received glutamine were less likely to have HSV-1 reactivation than those that did not, and similarly, guinea pigs that received glutamine were less likely to have recurrent outbreaks of HSV-2 than those that did not receive the supplement.

(Glutamine suppresses herpes in mice and guinea pigs, National Institutes of Health)