Medically reviewed by Renita White, MD Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann The herpes IgG test is a blood test used to diagnose ...
and analyzed for the presence of IgG antibodies to HSV (Tunback, Bergstrom, Claesson, Carlsson, & Lowhagen, 2007). Greater than half of primary HSV-1 infections were seen during the first 13 ...
Cold sores, often linked to HSV-1, are common and usually unrelated to sexual contact, unlike HSV-2, which is an STD.