Clinical and laboratory features of neonatal herpes simplex virus infection: A case-control study

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 425-430

  Caviness, A Chantal ^a,d   Demmler, Gail J ^a,b   Selwyn, Beatrice J ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Texas Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

case control; clinical features; herpes viruses; laboratory features; neonatal

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETHARGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEIZURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VESICULAR RASH; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHERS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIMPLEXVIRUS; TEXAS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 45849103576     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181646d95     Document Type: Article

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