[Incidence of herpes virus (HSV-2) alterations in squamous cells of vagina epithelium (author's transl)].

The authors have analysed 17,519 cytological cervix smears. Alterations characteristic of HSV infection were recorded from squamous cells of vaginal and cervical epithelia in 21 cases (0.12 per cent). Incidences of cytologically detected HSV infection of the vagina and cervix were 0.17 per cent among female factory workers and 0.08 per cent among peasant women. No statistically unambiguous difference was found to exist between the incidences of genital HSV infections in the two groups examined (p greater than 0.05). The majority of women with genital HSV infections was between 21 and 25 years old.