A Rare Case of Congenital Herpes Simplex Virus Infection with Therapeutic Response to Acyclovir

A 1-day-old pre-term female child delivered by lower segment cesarean section was referred for hypo-pigmented skin lesions over trunk since birth. After 3 days, the neonate developed vesicles and pustules. The mother gave a history of fluid-filled genital lesions at the 12(th) week of gestation. The...

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Autores principales: Jangid, Neha C., Choudhary, Ankita, Shah, Bela J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10115333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37089837
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.idoj_335_22
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author Jangid, Neha C.
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description A 1-day-old pre-term female child delivered by lower segment cesarean section was referred for hypo-pigmented skin lesions over trunk since birth. After 3 days, the neonate developed vesicles and pustules. The mother gave a history of fluid-filled genital lesions at the 12(th) week of gestation. The diagnosis of neonatal herpes infection was suspected clinically, which was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction, and the lesions resolved following injectable acyclovir.
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spelling pubmed-101153332023-04-20 A Rare Case of Congenital Herpes Simplex Virus Infection with Therapeutic Response to Acyclovir Jangid, Neha C. Choudhary, Ankita Shah, Bela J. Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report A 1-day-old pre-term female child delivered by lower segment cesarean section was referred for hypo-pigmented skin lesions over trunk since birth. After 3 days, the neonate developed vesicles and pustules. The mother gave a history of fluid-filled genital lesions at the 12(th) week of gestation. The diagnosis of neonatal herpes infection was suspected clinically, which was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction, and the lesions resolved following injectable acyclovir. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10115333/ /pubmed/37089837 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.idoj_335_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Indian Dermatology Online Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_sort rare case of congenital herpes simplex virus infection with therapeutic response to acyclovir
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