tonsils - reservoirs for chronic herpes viruses / systemic disease

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Still thinking about tonsil freezing here… DS almost at the stage where he would sit still with mouth wide open for 20min (given a very good bribe!)Wondering if anyone here has done (or attempted to) to tonsil freezing? Or had them removed? Any changes?Detection of herpes simplex virus type 1 in addition to Epstein-Bar virus in tonsils using a new multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay.HSV-1, HSV-2, CMV, EBV, which are the members of the herpes

virus family colonize and establish latent infection in human. Although

EBV is a well known virus most involved in recurrent bouts of acute tonsillitis, the role and possibility of HSV-1, HSV-2, and CMV for establishing infection in tonsils are not clear. … To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report that tonsils may be the reservoir

for HSV-1 in addition to EBV, and HSV-1 may have a role in recurrent tonsillitis and systemic diseases. ..http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17141448