Case 21-1989

Abstract
Presentation of CaseA newborn girl was admitted to the hospital because of respiratory distress, muscular hypotonia, and cutaneous vesicles.The child was born at full term by a normal spontaneous vaginal delivery and was the second child of a 29-year-old mother. The pregnancy was complicated by hyperemesis during the first trimester, which required hospital admission for rehydration; at four months of pregnancy a herpetic lesion on the mother's buttock yielded herpes simplex virus, Type II, on culture; no genital lesions were detected. Delivery occurred 1 1/2 hours after artificial rupture of membranes. The birth weight was 3.94 kg. At . . .

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