HSV-2 specific serology should be offered routinely to antenatal patients

Reviews in Medical Virology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 141-144

  Brown, Zane A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION PROGRAM; GENITAL HERPES; GENITAL SYSTEM; HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; LABOR; NEWBORN INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0034080716     PISSN: 10529276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1654(200005/06)10:3<141::AID-RMV280>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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