Consequences of varicella in pregnancy: a report of four cases.
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.


CONCLUSIONS
These cases showed that varicella during the second-third trimester of pregnancy may have serious consequence for infants.
Narkeviciute
Irena
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Clinic of Children's Diseases of Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. irena.narkeviciute@vuvl.lt
D002644:Chickenpox / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000821:virology*; D011264:Pregnancy Trimesters