Maternal herpetic breast infection: another hazard of neonatal herpes simplex.
After the death of an eight-day-old breast-fed neonate with disseminated herpes simplex, the mother was found to have herpes simplex infections of both nipples. This complication of neonatal herpes infection does not appear to have been reported previously.
D000328:Adult; D001940:Breast; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D006561:Herpes Simplex; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D009558:Nipples; D006559:Pemphigoid Gestationis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious; D012872:Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous