Table 1.
Prevalence of HSV genotype between samples of patients in Kuwait using Restriction Fragment Length polymorphism (RFLP) typing method.
| Original country of patient | Total | Percentage % | No of total with site for | Genotype | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PstI | BglI | A PstI+/BglI− |
B PstI+/BglI+ |
C PstI−/BglI+ |
D PstI−/BglI− |
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| Kuwait | 4 | 6.7% | 4 | 3 | 1 (25%) | 3 (75%) | 0 | 0 |
| Saudi | 1 | 1.7% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 (100%) | 0 | 0 |
| India | 31 | 51.7.% | 31 | 27 | 4 (13%) | 27 (87%) | 0 | 0 |
| Sri Lanka | 11 | 18.3% | 11 | 9 | 2 (18%) | 9 (82%) | 0 | 0 |
| Bangladesh | 5 | 8.3% | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 (100%) | 0 | 0 |
| Philippine | 7 | 11.7% | 6 | 7 | 0 | 6 (86%) | 1 (14%) | 0 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1.7% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 (100%) | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 60 | 7 (11.66%) | 52(86.6%) | 1(1.66%) | 0 | |||