Neonatal Herpes Simplex Infection and the Three Musketeers
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Neonatal herpes simplex infection.
Tremendous advances have occurred over the past 30 years in the diagnosis and management of neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) disease. Mortality in patients with disseminated disease has decreased from 85 to 29%, and that in patients with central nervous system (CNS) disease has decreased from 50 to 4%. Morbidity has been improved more modestly: the proportion of patients with disseminated di...
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عنوان ژورنال: New England Journal of Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0028-4793,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejme1107953