Differential transmission and postnatal outcomes in triplets with intrauterine cytomegalovirus infection

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-155

  Kitajima, Junko ^a,b   Inoue, Hirosuke ^a,b   Ohga, Shouichi ^a   Kinjo, Tadamune ^a,b   Ochiai, Masayuki ^a,b   Yoshida, Takahisa ^a,c   Kusuhara, Koichi ^a,d   Hara, Toshiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Fukuoka Tokushukai Medical Center   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital cytomegalovirus infection; Placenta; Triplets

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; RITODRINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AMNION; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DECIDUA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE DOSAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEUTROPENIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PETECHIA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA VILLUS; PLASMA CELL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOCOLYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; URINE CULTURE; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY, TRIPLET; TRIPLETS;

EID: 84864133375     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/11-05-1034-CR.1     Document Type: Article

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