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Consequences of varicella in pregnancy: a report of four cases
1Clinic of Children's Diseases of Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. irena.narkeviciute@vuvl.lt
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Four infants are reported with varicella-Zoster virus (VZV) infection, whose mothers had varicella during the second-third trimester of pregnancy. Two newborns had neonatal varicella. One of them, whose mother contracted varicella 5 days before delivery, had a severe and complicated form of the disease. The infants who had herpes zoster did not have specific VZV-IgG antibodies at the onset of the disease.
Conclusion:
These cases showed that varicella during the second-third trimester of pregnancy may have serious consequence for infants.
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