Congenital varicella-zoster virus infection. A rare case of severe brain and ocular malformations without limb or cutaneous involvement in a newborn after maternal subclinical infection

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 869-871

  Al Katawee, Yousef A ^a   Al Hasoun, Yousef A ^a   Taha, Mohamed N ^a   Al Moslem, Khalid ^a  

^a Al Yamamah Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE MALFORMATION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIPARA; NEUROLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PEDIATRICIAN; SEROLOGY; SOCIAL WORKER; TREATMENT PLANNING; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHICKENPOX; EYE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 21344444836     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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