The Spanish Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal herpes simplex infections

• Main Authors: Fernando Baquero Artigao (Author), Luis M. Prieto Tato (Author), José Tomás Ramos Amador (Author), Ana Alarcón Allen (Author), María de la Calle (Author), Marie Antoinette Frick (Author), Ana Goncé Mellgren (Author), María Isabel González Tomé (Author), David Moreno Pérez (Author), Antoni Noguera Julian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Neonatal herpes simplex virus infections are rare, but are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Most newborns acquire herpes simplex virus infection in the peripartum period. For peripartum transmission to occur, women must be shedding the virus in their genital tracts symptomaticall...