High interferon alpha levels in placenta, maternal, and cord blood suggest a protective effect against intrauterine herpes simplex virus infection

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 210-213

  Zdravkovic, Milan ^a   Knudsen, Hans Jørgen ^b   Liu, Xiangdong ^a   Hager, Henrik ^a   Zachar, Vladimir ^a,c   Aboagye Mathiesen, George ^a   Ebbesen, Peter ^a  

^a DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

fetal infection; transplacental; vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MATERNAL BLOOD; PLACENTA; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HERPES GENITALIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERONS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

HERPES; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 0030914347     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199703)51:3<210::AID-JMV11>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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