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

UNLABELLED

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.

CONCLUSION

These cases showed that varicella during the second-third trimester of pregnancy may have serious consequence for infants.