The acquisition of herpes simplex virus during pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 509-515

  Brown, Zane A ^a,b   Selke, Stacy ^b   Zeh, Judy ^b   Kopelman, Jerome ^c   Maslow, Arthur ^c   Ashley, Rhoda L ^b   Watts, D Heather ^a   Berry, Sylvia ^a   Herd, Millie ^c   Corey, Lawrence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENITAL HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 0030792120     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199708213370801     Document Type: Article

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