Incidence of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections in a managed-care population |
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| Authors: | Whitley Richard Davis Elizabeth Anne Suppapanya Nittaya |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Pediatrics, Microbiology, Medicine and Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. rwhitley@peds.uab.edu |
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| Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of possible neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections, HSV infection status of women with infected infants, and use of measures to reduce risk of HSV transmission to the neonate in a large US managed-care population. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of administrative claims from the Integrated Health Care Information Services National Managed Care Benchmark database. RESULTS: Of 233,487 infants born to 252,474 mothers from January 1997 to June 2002, the numbers assigned an ICD-9 code reflecting possible neonatal HSV infection
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