Effects on Infants of a First Episode of Genital Herpes during Pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 317, Issue 20, 1987, Pages 1246-1251

  Brown, Zane A ^a   Vontver, Louis A ^a   Benedetti, Jacqueline ^a   Critchlow, Cathy W ^a   Sells, Clifford J ^a   Berry, Sylvia ^a   Corey, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS; GENITAL HERPES; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PREVENTION; THERAPY;

EID: 0023203258     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198711123172002     Document Type: Article

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