[The clinico-laboratory diagnosis of herpetic stomatitis in newborn infants].

A clinical picture of herpetic stomatitis was studied in 173 newborns, 122 of these preterm and 51 full-term ones, aged 2 to 43 days. Herpesvirus origin of the disease was proved in 68 out of 77 examinees with stomatitis (88.31 +/- 3.66%) by virological and immunofluorescent methods. The authors conclude that herpetic stomatitis in newborns is usually a result of ante- and perinatal infection, with intrauterine infection occurring in 37.57 +/- 3.68% cases.