Outcomes of infants whose mothers are positive for human herpesvirus-6 DNA within the genital tract in early gestation

Pediatrics International

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 653-657

  Maeda, Taro ^a   Okuno, Toshiomi ^b   Hayashi, Kozaburo ^b   Nagata, Mitsuo ^a   Ueda, Masami ^a   Terashima, Kazuhiro ^a   Kawashima, Tadahisa ^a   Miyamoto, Hajime ^a   Mori, Toshiyuki ^a   Yamada, Yoshiyasu ^a  

^a Konan Hospital Foundation Rokko Island Hospital   (Japan)

^b Public Health Research Institute of Kobe City   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genital tract; HHV 6 DNA; Human herpesvirus 6; Pregnancy; Vaginal transmission

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; VAGINA;

EID: 6844241974     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.1997.tb03662.x     Document Type: Article

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