Genital Herpes Diagnosis
The healthcare provider can normally diagnose a herpes transmission by doing a detailed visual examination of the sores resulting from the herpes infection. Although the sores do not appear necessarily in every case of genital herpes so in the asymptomatic patients of genital herpes, the doctor confirms the diagnosis by laboratory tests. A blood test can also help in diagnosing herpes simplex virus in a patient before he or she experience any outbreak of genital herpes infection. Make an immediate appointment with your healthcare provider if you think that you have an exposure to the genital herpes infection, even if you are not having any symptoms yet. [6]
The doctor can typically diagnose genital herpes by doing the following laboratory and physical tests:
Viral culture
Viral culture is the test involving the extraction of a tissue sample or scrapes of the sores from the genital herpes patients. The technicians then examine the tissue samples for the cultures of herpes simplex virus and also provide the information regarding the type of virus.