Maternal and Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infections
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Maternal and neonatal herpes simplex virus infections.
Genital herpes infections are extremely common worldwide and ~22% of pregnant women are infected with herpes simplex virus. Eighty percent of those affected with genital herpes are unaware of being infected. The most devastating consequence of maternal genital herpes is neonatal herpes disease. Fortunately, neonatal herpes simplex infections are uncommon but due to the morbidity and mortality a...
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عنوان ژورنال: New England Journal of Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0028-4793,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejmra0807633