Maternal and neonatal herpes simplex virus infections

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 361, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 2678-2679

  Urato, Adam C ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEWBORN INFECTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NOTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; STANDARD; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; FEMALE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE;

EID: 74949121137     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc0910360     Document Type: Letter

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