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dc.contributor.authorSchultz, Reginaes_ES
dc.contributor.authorSuárez, Mónicaes_ES
dc.contributor.authorSaavedra, Tirzaes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2016
dc.date.available2016
dc.date.issued1994es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/26940
dc.description.abstractProspects for neonatal herpes transmission were studied in a group of pregnant Chilean women at high herpetic risk- including 59 with a history of genital herpes, 11 with a first genital herpes episode during observed pregnancy, and 16 whose sexual partners had a history of genital herpes. Each women completed a survey questionnaire, provided serologic samples for detection of herpes simplex virus (HSV), and provided periodic samples taken with cotton swabs for HSV isolation. The 86 women who completed the study had an average age of 28 years; most (58.8 percent) were primiparas. Only 21 of the 86 subjects yielded HSV isolates (predominantly HSV-2) from weekly cotton swab samples taken from the 34th week of pregnancy onward. HSV-2 predominance was found both in the symptomatic cases and in the three asymptomatic ones. Of six subjects found to be shedding HSV at the time of delivery, only one exhibited asymptomatic shedding. These findings are consistent with the following conclusions derived from studies in developed countries: (1) Isolation of HSV in pregnancy does not define a greater risk of shedding HSV during childbirth. (2) In nearly all (five of six) cases, HSV shedding during childbirth involved symptomatic episodes of herpes that clearly defined the steps to be taken by the physicians. (3) Despite this, the finding of one asymptomatic case demostrates that the physician should reques a test for HSV isolation at the time of delivery by a woman at high perpetic risken_US
dc.description.abstractThis article will also be published in Spanish in the BOSP. Vol. 116(2), Feb. 1994en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBulletin of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO);28(2),jun. 1994en_US
dc.subjectPregnancy Complications, Infectiouses_ES
dc.subjectHerpes Genitalises_ES
dc.subjectSimplexviruses_ES
dc.subjectEpidemiological Surveillancees_ES
dc.subjectChilees_ES
dc.titleFollow-up of pregnant women at high risk of transmitting herpes simplex viruses_ES
dc.typeJournal articlesen_US
dc.rights.holderPan American Health Organizationen_US


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