Targeted prenatal herpes simplex virus testing: Can we identify women at risk of transmission to the neonate?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 408-414

  Mark, Karen E ^a   Kim, H Nina ^a   Wald, Anna ^a,c   Gardella, Carolyn ^b   Reed, Susan D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neonatal herpes; Prenatal testing; Risk factors; Screening; Serologic testing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CHILD DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEVER; GENITAL HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN DISEASE; PARENT COUNSELING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; FEVER; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 31844456874     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.08.018     Document Type: Article

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