Main viral diseases with in utero transmission of pathogen during pregnancy: Epidemiology, pathological features and outcome

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 875-882

  Shlyakhov, Elie ^a,b   Segev, Shlomo ^a   Rubinstein, Ethan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; EMBRYO; ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM; FEMALE; FETUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUBELLA; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0031665321     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/j.1600-0412.1998.770901.x     Document Type: Review

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