Neonatal Varicella.
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2013-10
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Abstract
Varicella or chickenpox is primarily an infectious disease of childhood and majority of population is infected upto 15 years of
age. Rarely, varicella is seen in newborns as congenital or perinatal infection, but in such cases mortality rate is very high. Here
we present two cases of neonatal varicella with secondary complications, one with varicella pneumonia and other developing
severe secondary skin infection and sepsis.
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Neonatal varicella, varicella pneumonia
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Sharma Pramod, Jora Rakesh, Purohit Adarsh, Garg Ankit, Laxminarayan. Neonatal Varicella. Indian Journal of Clinical Practice. 2013 Oct; 24(5): 482-486.