Peculiarities of the clinical course of inflammatory salivary gland diseases in patients presenting with herpes virus infection

The present virological study included 68 patients aged from 18 to 80 years presenting with a variety of inflammatory and dystrophic diseases on salivary glands. It was shown that salivary gland pathology is rarely (18%) associated with herpes virus infection; viruses of the type EBV are most frequently (58%) identified in the affected patients. The cytomegalovirus infection is not specific for patients presenting with Shegren's and Mikulich's syndromes. The presence or absence of viruses of the family Herpesviridae has no appreciable effect on the clinical features of different forms of inflammatory and dystrophic diseases of the salivary glands. At the same time, pathogenic agents of this family affecting salivary glands cause serious changes in their functional activity.

siladenitis, parotitis, viral infection